"Rigor" is the Word!
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| Rigor mortis (Latin: rigor "stiffness", mortis "of death") |
This Advocate article is just another in a long list of propaganda pieces designed to continue the process of ramming though the Common Core in our state public schools. In the first line of the article, Will Sentell continues to frame the argument about Common Core as a struggle by the "good guys" who want more "rigor" in our schools against the "bad guys" who are supposedly backwards people who want to keep "dumbed down" standards. I would refer my readers again to the letter below written by a parent of an autistic child who knows absolutely from her own experience that you cannot succeed with a one size fits all system of education. Her child will be just going through the motions along with thousands of other children for whom the Common Core is not appropriate!
Lottie Beebe is correct when she explains that just letting all the local school systems design their own curriculum to satisfy the Common Core standards will not solve the problem. The point is that each school and each teacher will be judged by how all students do on the Common Core tests. They will be forced to neglect children who do not fit the new system.The students
Lottie Beebe is correct when she explains that just letting all the local school systems design their own curriculum to satisfy the Common Core standards will not solve the problem. The point is that each school and each teacher will be judged by how all students do on the Common Core tests. They will be forced to neglect children who do not fit the new system.The students