I have four kids in public schools. 2 in HS and 1 middle and 1 elementary.
The real threat of common core is the parents no longer know how to teach their children at home according to the methods taught at school.
This does one very dangerous things:
Discredits the parent's ability to teach in the mind of the child. Dad, you can't do simple math?
Another thing, if this was the only method taught I could learn and help my children. It's not though. My daughter learned no fewer than four methods to solve word problems depending on the school and teacher. She's confused now as there was no consistency with the methods.
So my primary concern isn't how wrong they are getting their historical facts and such it's the wedge they are driving between parent and child.
The real threat of common core is the parents no longer know how to teach their children at home according to the methods taught at school.
This does one very dangerous things:
Discredits the parent's ability to teach in the mind of the child. Dad, you can't do simple math?
Another thing, if this was the only method taught I could learn and help my children. It's not though. My daughter learned no fewer than four methods to solve word problems depending on the school and teacher. She's confused now as there was no consistency with the methods.
So my primary concern isn't how wrong they are getting their historical facts and such it's the wedge they are driving between parent and child.