Comments on: State BOE Changes To Common Core, Standards Ready By Spring

By: JM

JM — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:06:55 +0000

I’ve read the Standards. I think they’re awesome. I’m convinced that most of the people commenting have never actually read the standards. But I’m sure that there are at least a few people who have legitimate arguments opposing Common Core. I just haven’t read a coherent and well-defended position or argument against such standards.

By: melodies4us

melodies4us — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:31:38 +0000

Where may we read up on these ” core values” ? I’d like to know exactly what their plan is. I’ve had 5 children in escambia county public schools for 30 years. What is needed in our schools is making sure that the children are LEARNING : Reading, Writing and Arithmatic. Not just teachers going through the motions, but children really learning the basics.They are not ready to learn anything else until they can write, read and add. Trying to cram more into their brains is not going to bring their scores up. Over the years, I have seen a gradual shift away from the schools having a normal environment for children with a healthy balance between academics and play.Someone told me that this new curriculum was not going to teach writing. Our children are already cyber poisoned .

By: E Bell

E Bell — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 02:46:27 +0000

Common Core is not what we need . What we need are leaders who have common sense and guts. Two things I have found hard to find amoung those who tell are teachers what and how to teach.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:48:03 +0000

To concerned,
You don’t understand it correctly. Have you looked at the common core standards or are you just going off of what someone else told you or what you saw on facebook, etc.?

There is nothing in Common Core that addresses sex ed at all, especially for age 7. Common Core standards only address math and literacy standards and how to incorporate them into other subjects. By the way, I’m pretty sure I’ve responded to you before about this same issue, which tells me you don’t care about the truth behind the issue, just about spreading damaging misinformation.

Which is why they don’t teach anything about Lincoln or the Berlin Wall–they’re not Social Studies standards!!! States should have their own social studies standards that include those things, and if they don’t, that is the state’s fault and not common core’s.

By: thetruth

thetruth — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:05:40 +0000

Common Core will make many great teachers leave the field. Decisions are being made by people who have either never been a teacher, or haven’t been in a classroom in several years. Public Education is in a fragile state right now, and we need to figure this out. I can tell you this the Positive Behavior system and Common Core is not preparing kids for the real world after they finish high school.

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:37:48 +0000

On the surface Common Core would have been a good thing. But once you start looking at the actual lessons you find that history is being re-written, and not just US history. I believe thoise changes are politically motivated and politics has no place in teaching our children the truth of history.

I know how much it upset me when I got to be an adult and learned that there were topics not taught in my education, usually because someone decided this or that subject was too racially charged.

How about we teach the truth – good, bad and ugly? Our kids are much like computers’ garbage in, garbage out. Teachers should be held to higher standards and not teaching their political leanings nor religious preferences.

We’ve seen over the last 6 decades how taking prayer and the 10 commandments out of schools have damaged our children and society in general. We don’t have to put vocal prayer back, but we should encourage our children to be caring, responsible, honest human beings. No one can point to the youth of the last 6 decades and say that things like behavior and respect have gotten better (unless the students attended private school, which has been no guarantee).

Common Core distorts the truth with a word use here or a deletion there. Do you know which President was instrumental in getting the Berlin Wall removed? Do you know the political affiliation of Abraham Lincoln? Common Core doesn’t teach it. The writers/publishers of text books have been re-writing history for decades, as well; Common Core is a continuation.

If you want your children to have a great education you must be involved enough to know what they are being taught.

By: concerened

concerened — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:50:23 +0000

Everyone needs to look into what is going to be taught with new “common core” stuff. I for one do not want my grandkids to be taught this ” common core” stuff. If I understand it correctly our elementary kids will be taught sex education. Do we really want our babies to be taught what STDs are? Do we want our 7 year olds to be able to be about to tell you how babies are conceived? I for one believe that sex education should be do by parents..Let our children be children. They grow up so fast as it is. What ever happen to teaching our kids reading, history, science, math, spelling. What ever happen to our kids going out and having a break, and P.E. every day.

By: sniper

sniper — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:35:12 +0000

Ask any teacher what they think about core standards. Then youtube the hs student from TN that speaks out what he thinks of the common core. This is a black eye to education/educators. It has been shoved down our throats while our attention has been kept on obamacare. They say this movement was spearheaded by “education officials?” Wow! Might as well be slapping our real education officials (teachers) in the face. I challenge Escambia county to stand up against the state on this one.
Fed up!