NY parents react in fury to Common Core and testing; Commissioner John King disengages. Watch the OTHER video to see why.
So the fury of parents and teachers with the state's botched implementation of the Common Core, testing and data collection was vented full blast on Thursday night, at a Town Hall meeting in Poughkeepsie, in which parents practically booed Commissioner King off the stage. That much-watched video is here, with more than 8500 views as of Saturday afternoon.
One point to help explain the vocal anger expressed: parents had been required to sit quietly for almost two hours and listen quietly to a lengthy presentation by John King about how the Common Core is absolutely necessary for their kids to be college and career ready. They had be given only 20 minutes at the end of a two hour meeting to express their views, which helps to explain their frustration when he kept interrupting their minimal speaking time.
Moreover, these Westchester parents have elected school boards, and are used to having their voices heard. Their schools are generally well-resourced and run, and more than 90% of their students graduate from high school in four years, go on to college and do quite well there.
Now they feel their children's lives and education being severely disrupted by all the stressful and constricting
One point to help explain the vocal anger expressed: parents had been required to sit quietly for almost two hours and listen quietly to a lengthy presentation by John King about how the Common Core is absolutely necessary for their kids to be college and career ready. They had be given only 20 minutes at the end of a two hour meeting to express their views, which helps to explain their frustration when he kept interrupting their minimal speaking time.
Moreover, these Westchester parents have elected school boards, and are used to having their voices heard. Their schools are generally well-resourced and run, and more than 90% of their students graduate from high school in four years, go on to college and do quite well there.
Now they feel their children's lives and education being severely disrupted by all the stressful and constricting