I hate our education system.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. We all understand that the curriculum needs to be accelerated and that students need to be

prepared for college. However, this cannot be done at light speed. By doing it so quickly they actually skip over important curricula. My son is having to go back and learn multiplication and division because Common Core forced my son to skip 4th and 5th grade math in order to learn 6th grade math. And he is not the only one. My son's math teacher is seeing lots of kids with this problem. The same problem occurs when they do this acceleration with other subjects such as science. Why can't they accelerate the curriculum one year at a time instead of three to four years? If I had to guess I would say because billionaires and corporations are putting pressure on our government to produce competitive math and science majors now, and because those same billionaires want to privatize our public school system. They are trying to force these kids to improve and when they don't do it fast enough they punish them and their schools and teachers for it. Not to mention that my son is autistic. They don't have special education science and this school doesn't even have an educational assistant to help him. Instead of following an IEP where they can customize curriculum for special education students they are abandoning IEPs for Common Core and trying to force special education students to catch up to their general education peers.