On common Core

[liberal_at_heart]

28. My son would be much better off without Common Core because they would be focusing on his

individualized education plan instead of Common Core. They did focus on his IEP when he was in elementary school. The teachers and I would all meet and agree what HIS educational goals for the year would be. They were incredible. They would push him to realize his potential but when he would start having break downs they would back off and adjust the curriculum. Then all of a sudden in middle school everything changed. They forced him to take a 6th grade math class even though he had a 4th grade math comprehension. He was in 9th grade this year, and he was in a different school that didn't have a Common Core math class. They had to go back and teach him multiplication and division because he never actually learned what Common Core was trying to force him to learn. They just passed him through the system. This school however does have a Common Core English class, and even the teacher doesn't like it. The public education system has been having major problems for three or four decades now. Ever since Reagan brought us Trickle Down Economics we decided that we didn't need to increase funding for schools. Now with little money and little resources our teachers and kids are expected to make light years of improvement in the matter of a couple of years. It just doesn't work that way. I just hope that by the time my kids have kids the data is out to prove Common Core and Race to the Top wrong.