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Math is a universal discipline and concept, and math can't change, especially for profits at the expense of society and young innocent minds. I'm happy that teachers are starting to come out of the woodwork about Common Core, not just parents and students. It is mostly a failure anyway, as should have been expected, by forcing students and parents to learn new ways to solve math at the most basic elementary levels, for example, which is very confusing. This does not encourage learning, it merely damages and dumbs down the brain, especially in gifted students. There is no excuse for this, and it just shows how desperate they are to keep on their same miserable track they are on. It essentially tries to teach math backwards too in some cases, which is also damaging and the opposite of learning new information. An example would be expecting 2 hours of 10th grade geometry concepts to be homework at home, before multiplication has even been taught in the classroom for 3rd graders, which has happened. It is keeping psychologists in business and shrinks for sure though, I bet, for parents who don't know any better and allow this to continue for their child. Some states are opting out of this, which is wonderful news, but 45 states have adopted the measures. Hopefully soon, it will be done away with along with NCLB. Maybe teacher accountability will happen at some point, and the fact that children are all at different intelligence levels will be recognized again and then taught accordingly, and in an appropriate classroom for their level. The above article is impressive, by a former teacher, who left her profession to fight common core standards. The only false thing she says, is that teachers had nothing to do with common core standards themselves being developed, which they most certainly did! Teachers who fail at teaching should not be given pay raises- that is a mathematical and societal certainty. Unions in themselves are a good concept, but it is appalling that there is such a narcissistic attitude present among so many teachers, some are the best example of inflated ego hurting the worker's rights movement in general. They are quick to blame parents and pick on the students themselves for failures that are on their own part, or for failed teaching methods, like common core. Displaced anger is what that is. They have shut down whole cities demanding pay raises and refuse to work until they get them, but the money goes in their pockets some more, and the highly paid administrators and principals who keep it all going. It doesn't usually go to supplies for the students or to improve teaching methods in reality, to the students, or to the district funding of such things as bus service, or other needed services, and this behavior hurts the working class and indigent even further. This is partly because it hurts job creation for small businesses and other professions when they have to pay a large burden of taxes to support teachers salaries and benefits, which are like no other. The middle class has their tax burden shifted to them also, at the expense of programs that help the poor (affecting 100+ million people), because the rich and super rich pay little in taxes in comparison, and there seems to be no end in sight for that, made very clear by our recent government shutdown.
I exceeded at math learning the old fashioned way (the real way), and my children are excellent at math also, in my opinion, which is what ultimately counts. Unfortunately, I am being stuck with the job of teaching for example long division, and basic multiplication. The district they attend does not teach that, they teach common core, which is very dissimilar to the basic concepts of math that the rest of us were taught with, that have finished their education and aren't teachers. Learning blocks for math have always been universal and will remain so. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are important to learn for every child, it is impossible to do advanced math later on of these aren't grasped. If common core curriculum is a struggle for me to grasp and my children, who are of above average intelligence, how can so many teachers be so blind as to embrace common core methods? Maybe it is their own curriculum that they were given in their own college careers that made them believe all the fallacies that have led to such a burden on kids, parents, and taxpayers. Colleges need to stop pumping them up to believe they can do whatever they please at everyone else's expense. For example, teaching them to actually believe that it is okay to not have knowledge of the subjects they are teaching, and then to demand a budget larger than Medicaid, Food Stamps, and other social services funded by the government that are actually helpful and come with accountability already. Also the belief they have been given demanding that they receive no accountability for their mistakes, and to create a fear based environment for everybody including students for standing up to them. The authoritarian role is astoundingly Orwellian, and they have come off as something out of Animal Farm, and not the horses that's for sure! Definitely the dogs or the pigs, for those of you who have read the novel.
I am so proud of the teachers that have come forward to say that common core is not beneficial to students. That shows that they have merit and care for their students. They are not just teaching for the paychecks, benefits, and vacations. They are willing to teach the subjects they signed up for, and not stick up for teachers who should leave the profession. They are showing that they want students to learn as they should, to be healthy, and care about them as people that deserve a future. They don't want to kill the joy of learning for their students. Common Core is destroying the desire to learn for many children, like focusing on standardized testing has been doing. It has made public schools a bigger chore for kids and parents, especially when it is homework time. It is very important to mention the profit motive for common core's development also. It is true that changing all of the textbooks and redoing them would benefit a few companies, and not people. What a good start to ending the insanity, that is our public education system, and failed economy.
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