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Grade school education

Josie said:
Yep -- we're all Common Core. Just haven't quite made the switch to new math.
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I think that people don't understand that the math teaching methodologies which are frustrating them have nothing to do with common core.

Very few people seem to have a clue what common core is.
 
Slyfox696 said:
:lol:

Let me see if I can accurately sum up Missouri. Missouri adopted Common Core years back, in order to get out of the ridiculous NCLB legislation which basically ensured all schools would be a failure by 2014. Common Core, of course, became a political issue and became tied to Obama, so Missouri, being an increasingly red state, decided we couldn't be Common Core because...Obama, I guess. So then Common Core standards became "Missouri Learning Standards"...but they were the exact same standards. So, apparently, that wasn't good enough and Missouri scrapped those standards and wrote new ones, after we spent years aligning curriculum to the Common Core/Missouri Learning Standards. And, of course, when you change standards you have to change standardized testing, so here's where we are today:
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That's exactly what happened in SC.
 
Josie said:
You're talking about handwriting. I'm talking about writing. There are Common Core standards for every grade level from kindergarten (writing a complete sentence with a capital letter and period at the end) to high school (writing multi-page essays with proper grammar, voice, organization, cohesion, etc.)

Cursive handwriting is becoming obsolete because almost everything we write and read is typed. I don't know why older people throw such a freakin' hissy fit about cursive handwriting. Not necessarily talking about you - just people I've talked to before, in general. It's like they think children are now total idiots because they weren't taught how to form a beautiful loop on the letter "L". Dumb. But - for the record - I have my kids practice cursive handwriting on their own during independent centers. It's just not something that I feel deserves a 20-min a day lesson.
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Exactly.

Schools used to teach shorthand also. It became obsolete, so we stopped teaching it.
 
Josie said:
You're talking about handwriting. I'm talking about writing. There are Common Core standards for every grade level from kindergarten (writing a complete sentence with a capital letter and period at the end) to high school (writing multi-page essays with proper grammar, voice, organization, cohesion, etc.)

Cursive handwriting is becoming obsolete because almost everything we write and read is typed. I don't know why older people throw such a freakin' hissy fit about cursive handwriting. Not necessarily talking about you - just people I've talked to before, in general. It's like they think children are now total idiots because they weren't taught how to form a beautiful loop on the letter "L". Dumb. But - for the record - I have my kids practice cursive handwriting on their own during independent centers. It's just not something that I feel deserves a 20-min a day lesson.
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Exactly.

Schools used to teach shorthand also. It became obsolete, so we stopped teaching it. I don't think our students are any worse off without learning shorthand.

There is also a time issue. Shy of extending school hours or shortening vacation times, there are only so many hours we can teach and learn. So when something new is introduced, like computer skills, then something old has to be eliminated or reduced.
 
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