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Why are Common Core math problems like this? $$$$$$$$$$ | Reclaim Reform

Why are Common Core math problems like this? $$$$$$$$$$ | Reclaim Reform:



Why are Common Core math problems like this? $$$$$$$$$$

Why are Common Core math problems like this? $$$$$$$$$$
2+2=4 cannot be copyrighted, sold, and re-sold.
The CCSS formatted math being published in print and online is copyrighted, sold and re-sold.
It’s not about kids, parents, teachers or schools. It’s all about the money.
As a matter of fact making and copyrighting lousy CCSS products online or in print is much more lucrative than producing good ones. Next year school districts nationwide will have to upgrade to the “improved” products – lots of money for an update. (Sound familiar?)
Of course next year the product may have a different label on it – FCAT, FLAT, ISAT, USAT, Pearson, Beersome, etc. It doesn’t matter. It’s all profit to the multinational investors and the fund managers. And it’s all poison for our children.
CCSS reason
Even affluent and middle class parents are being scapegoated for the Common Core math that children are having trouble with. Obviously, scapegoating children, teachers, principals, schools, textbooks and “white suburban moms” (who think their kids are smarter than they really are – as Secretary of Education Arne Duncan so famously proclaimed) and other assorted targets isn’t enough. Scapegoats are like that. You can never have too may scapegoats if you are a hedge fund manager for billionaire investorsWhy are Common Core math problems like this? $$$$$$$$$$ | Reclaim Reform: