LOL. Yes, even the barf part. My little one seems to have avoided the flu that was going around here, so maybe not being packed in an overcrowded school room with sick kids reduced the barf possibility.

what does "work" mean, as applied to schools? Too often it means that kids score high on government-and-school bureaucracy-designed tests. When's the last time most adults took a standardized test? What's so important about kids learning to do it, then?

see my shrugging note that ended up below.

I would not work for them for any amount of money, even if they promised I could change things. The system corrupts what it touches.

Like most things, if designed correctly, both students end up learned. If designed incorrectly [as is usual] it's ghastly. The smarter kid ends up feeling like being smarter isn't a good thing. [hmmm...sounds autobiographical to me...]

P.S.... I attempted to do the impossible once (sell out for a good paycheck and benefits) and I couldn't do it. (Actually the attempt was more of an act until I could figure things out.) We all have choices. If they stay teaching under this common core albatross then THEY are choosing to do...regardless of promises that were made to them, regardless of what they'll lose if they leave. They are not victims. A=A.

It is so sad. I point this out and the response I get back is, "but it helps me out so much...I can't stay on top of them (the low ones) by myself." Pisses me off.

But they sign up for it and I see NONE of them fighting for anything different. In fact I'm not even sure they know what to fight for, or if they even want to fight. Class sizes have been too big for decades and decades now...they don't know any different and think that's just the way it's always been. WRONG! Or they just want to ride out their time til they retire with full bennies. Again..either way the kids get lost in the shuffle. And speaking of Unions...public sector jobs should not even have them. They get paid with tax dollars and it's a conflict of interest. Plus they support all the things that work against real education...AND they support the liberal agenda and spends chunks on said candidates... it's cronyism and has NO place in the education of kids (except to indoctrinate so they grow up and vote for the collective). And the waste of funding...dear God! The new thing is to build fences around schools....to keep them "safe". What a waste of tax dollars for nothing but a false sense of security that doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Actually a hill of bean would be a better option.

I STRESS asking questions. I say it all the time..whenEVER you have a question, ask if you don't understand the answer then ask again until you do. I even said the other day, "I've been thinking...we have a huge problem in this country with people not asking questions. It is a very important thing to do. Always always ask questions." Some times I just can't help myself.
Our school has just expanding the special ED . and E.D. classrooms...BUT there are some serious class disrupters that shouldn't be in a main stream class setting.. behavior management is so time consuming and unfair to everyone else. But that brings this back around to class size again.

No worries. They’ll stop teaching the Constitution.

even the barf part?

By 'learning' do you mean 'teaching'? There shouldn't BE peer assisted learning... that is being your brother's keeper (socialism 101). ..and it has no place anywhere let alone education. It is not a student's job to teach other students. It's wrong.

out for dinner. back later.

The whole thing reads like an advertisement for Homeschooling.

makes me FURIOUS to watch this happening. It was the reason for my own shrug: I denied them my talents for more than 20 years, and worked for almost nothing at a school which did it right.

They already (in the name of large class management) have them marching quietly in line. Making lemmings.
The whole math thing....as long as the "process" is right then it is considered correct even if the wrong answer is given...if the process is wrong but the answer is correct..then it is incorrect.. Um excuse me...math has exact answers, it's either right or it's wrong...it's LOGICAL.. not emotional...but they've managed to take the logic out and put in emotions. It's up to some higher power (the teacher) to decide if it's right or wrong...not dependent on math facts. Trains them to seek approval from superiors because they know better. barf

This is what has always happened to bright kids. Either that, or they get more worksheets to do, or they get to help the ones who don't understand it yet. Occasional help is one thing, constantly being required to help others is slavery.
That "teacher" should have had extra questions, materials, books, etc. for ANYONE who was working faster. Why didn't she? If 1 kid gets other things to do, more kids will want other things to do. Yeah, and? The "teacher" will have to teach 20 different curricula!! Oh, horrors! That's what real teachers do.
They also say to kids "Come walk a bit with me and let's talk about that." old Greek custom.

I assume, from your language, that your daughter is no longer in public school?

This is one of my biggest complaints... class size and the fact that they don't have same level kids together. First: too many kids in a room. Again, if we really cared about educating kids we would NOT have 30 kids in one room..it's an impossible task to get the best teaching/learning in when there's no one-on-one time (the only one-on-one they get is when they're being tested and that's NOT teaching/learning time arg! And don't get me started with the amount of testing that goes on either.) Second: Each class has 4 levels ranging from highest to lowest in the learned (smarts) department...why not have kids with their own level and they can bump up, or down, to the next level as they earn it? BECAUSE the higher kids end up being mini teachers for the lower kids. They spread them out in the classrooms to 'help' the other kids during lessons because there is too many kids to manage. I really really hate this. These higher kids should be getting one on one (like the rest of them ) to get as advanced as they can go...but they aren't..they're getting held back and pigeon holed. Makes me sad to watch this happening.

One big issue with Common Corpse is that it departs from the right vs. wrong method of education and instead embraces a “thought process” method of education concentrating on how a child reaches an answer instead of if that answer is correct or not. They then attempt to steer that thinking method to one that the government has decided is proper to reach the right answer.

On the surface it does not sound so bad, but what is the government going to do with this thought process steering? Think about children suspended for playing cowboys and Indians and biting food into gun shapes. Now, what is it going to look like when the teachers who cannot separate their liberal agenda from their job as educators start teaching the constitution? What are they going to teach? Will it be individual responsibility and freedom or will it be fall in line little lemmings?