This is why I'm against Common Core.

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You understand that common core is not a curriculum and does not mandate any certain curriculum

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I've always figured common core opposition has been secretly funded by the teacher unions because they don't actually want to have to teach anything as involved as common core.

The "inappropriate reading assignments" are only an issue if the teacher is too lazy to design their own lessons and choose their own readings. It is when the teacher just buys a bunch of Common Core workbooks with ready made lessons that you might run into a problem.

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You can find the actual standards at this link. Let me know which standards with which you disagree.

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lets just go ahead and let the fedgov bribe states into giving them more control

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Sad isn't it. I finally had my ah ha moment the other day when I realized how much of the expansion of the federal level was through this method

It's a set of educational standards, set up by a coalition of states, that will make some educational objectives standardized across the country. It does not mandate a curriculum to achieve those standards. That is up to the local district.

No one has ever read the standards. Everyone is also really sure that the standards are the way that the Antichrist will take control of America.

A math curriculum, called Everyday Math (which may be the worst curriculum ever written) has been sold to schools as meeting Common Core objectives. This math curriculum makes up almost all (if not all) of the examples of ridiculous math problems you may or may not have seen floating on the interwebs. The Everyday Math curriculum is no more mandated by Common Core than driving a Yugo is mandated by your state transportation department.

But it's national education standards, so the Muslims are winning.

There is no "Common Core curriculum." There will be companies who write curriculum and label it as "Common Core," but that will be them marketing their product.

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There will be companies who write curriculum and label it as "Common Core," but that will be them marketing their product.

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And that's where, I suspect, the opponents will find the most ridiculous examples to oppose.

Correct.

When you actually read the standards (I linked them above), they are just nuts and bolts education stuff.

By grade X, child will be able to count by 10s. Identify shapes. Etc. I fail to see why conservatives have picked this as a rallying point and I am usually somewhere to the right of Atilla the Hun.

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And that's where, I suspect, the opponents will find the most ridiculous examples to oppose.

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Correct. The standards themselves are very vanilla. And I mean that in a non-racial way.