If you have had an experience with some aspect of Common Core illustrating a loss of local control, please share it here.
If you have had an experience with some aspect of Common Core illustrating a loss of local control, please share it here.
We used to have really neat field trips which give students a great experience they may not otherwise get. These included Antelope Island, Bees baseball game, symphony, museums, etc. Now we only get one field trip per year. Most field trips are good experiences and not that hard to tie to the core. However we are treated as if it would never occur to us to do this. We have to write about it and document how it is tied to the core using criteria from our community counsel.
As a teacher I feel so overwhelmed with having to document so much data that may or may not be accurate. The attitude is not about doing the right thing but rather doing what we are being mandated to do. When our principal was asked why we have so many data meetings she answered, “the purpose of data is so that we have something to show the parents when we go to community council meetings.”
Enough! You must stop this madness. You are harming students in Utah by spreading your misinformation. You are harming teachers by creating a distraction and undermining their valiant efforts to improve education. The Core does not create robots or indoctrinate students in any federal agenda. It does not prevent teachers from meeting the individual needs of students. It does not prevent differentiation of instruction or anything of the like. The Standards do not require any particular curriculum; districts, schools and teachers make those decisions. Please for the good of teachers and students, stop this nonsense.
You are misinformed, and wrong.
The standards allow input from local districts, but explicitly prohibits changes or deletions.
So local educators can only ADD to the standards, and even then their input is capped at 15% of the total.
The facts are indisputable. The question about why these changes have been made are being answered, slowly, and the unfolding picture is horrifying. Being ideologically deaf and blind is your own choice, but the time for dragging the naive along with you is over.
Agreed John Meisner!! I have been teaching in Utah for 5 years and cannot see how following the CCI will be detrimental to my students. I have studied the standards and find no fault in how we are being asked to implement them.
D Jones, here is the problem with how Utah has implemented the standards if you were unaware of the issue.
https://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/dr-wright-slams-usoe-implementation-of-cc-math/
https://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/dr-david-wright-vs-usoe-8-0-for-dr-wright/
We also have much better options like this:
https://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/solution-utah-should-adopt-californias-math-standards/
…ah, but there are just as many issues with the California Standards. They are good; but, they are also vague, inexplicit and there are too many of them to be practical. We should focus on revising the Utah Core to improve it rather than through the baby out with the bath-water and adopt another flawed set of standards.
Thank you! Completely agree. Standards are NOT curriculum. Professional teachers recognize the incredible value that common core brings to the classroom and children’s (including my own kids) education.