white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were

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2. As opposed to educational reformers whose plans are not as brilliant as they thought they were...

Watching my (good) school district tie their schedule in absolute knots to give every advantage for the
high-stakes testing simply reinforces to me how misguided the entire effort is. We get automated phone
calls the night before tests telling us to make sure that our child gets enough sleep and a good breakfast.

I think the schools make the kids more nervous about the tests than the tests do.

But the idiotic way they teach division on the common core will CERTAINLY cost us dominance in science
and math later. The "model" technique looks cool, is very visual, and completely does not generalize to
more than perhaps three digit numbers. It isn't more than a stunt to me.

And then they de-stress the algorithm.

It's the one time I've truly been disappointed with my kids' math curriculum.