A few days ago, UEA President Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh sent this letter to UEA teachers all over Utah encouraging them to immediately write legislators and the governor that a “small, vocal minority” (isn’t it always???) is trying to abandon Utah’s core standards. No, actually we’re trying to run away from Common Core. I love how she emails them on their school email accounts but then tells them to email legislators and the governor from a non-school computer and email account. :)
It’s especially interesting that she would send this out after receiving so many letters from teachers who were having extremely negative experiences with the Common Core SAGE tests noting “Developmentally inappropriate and despairing prompts that were given.”
Please pass this on to your legislators as to why they got a handful of emails the past few days and reiterate that you are not part of a small, vocal minority, but a growing and sizable part of the population.
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To Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh. What do you want to be when you grow up?
Just wondering who the “overwhelming” number of educational supporters of “Utah Core” really are? My guess is that they are the State’s School Boards, the UEA, and teachers who fear for their jobs if they say otherwise. How about a recent national poll indicating the “overwhelming non-support” of Common Core from 47% of parents with school age children – a double digit swing from just a few months ago.
The Governor, the School Boards and Ms. Fishbaugh have re-branded Common Core as “Utah Core” in order to sell it. Hmm – so why does putting “lipstick on a pig” come to mind? If you read any of the curriculum our kids bring home from school they all reference “Common Core” which a number of states, and surprisingly some unions, are now trying to dump.
Let’s get Utah core out of their visit this is the pig with lipstick we need to do something about what’s happening from top down and this is not what we need here in Utah!