This is BS! Raise hell. Tell the newspapers. Write an article an post it on the web. Blog news sites. Be vocal with the principal. Never sit silent while they erode you child's mind, I never did (my kids and their teachers hated me for it) and it was worthwhile.

That is a HUGE red flag "not allowed to talk about it"...with a PARENT! I wish teachers, who are obviously uncomfortable, would take a stand. My son attends a technical institute and one of his teachers IS quitting. He's had it. They're losing a wonderful teacher who was really into giving his class a great experience. He went above and beyond...and now he's shrugging. Who can blame him?

Tip of the ice burg, sir.
There is SO much more going on that is unethical in the public schools.
A book needs to be written.
Perhaps I'll do it after my four decades as an educator.
And it's going to get worse.

NMA, I know that there is a fairly sizable home-schooling community where you are.

I don't know if that is an option or not.

At least your daughter has a teacher who isn't a "true believer".

If you still think Common Core is good for your children, you really should read this:

http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/20...

Common Core is NOT about academic equalization. It's about assessing your child's values and behavior modification. It's about undermining your child's familial attachments and parental authority. NMA: You've been given an opportunity to pull your child out before it's too late. You have the right to sit in the classroom and observe "assessments" (not the same as an academic test to determine if your child learned math, english etc.) You have the right to "OPT OUT" of assessments. Look out for "Smarter Balance" too. Common Core is NOT intended to teach your child anything other than to OBEY, regardless of how ridiculous or insane the curriculum gets. If you can't homeschool by yourself, please find other parents that have formed homeschool cooperatives in order to safely teach their children. I can't stress enough to anyone that may think CC is innocuous or just another new teaching "method". IT IS NOT! Here's a link to one of our efforts in NH to get this insidiousness out of our schools. Either it goes, or your children should be removed from public school. Some States are even instituting CC in Charter & Private schools. You've been warned.

https://www.facebook.com/StopCommonCoreI...

Non-mooch you stay on their arses like stink on sh%t for the sake of your child. Many more will follow and it will be a fight they may have not asked for. My Dad took trig in high school, but that was 1955 and it was an introduction to college classes. That was also the year he graduated from high school. A little bit of difference between then and now. Smaller classes with more of a one on one type atmosphere. I call my senators and congressmen all the time and a few are leaving Michigan for higher ground. I know you understand that analogy because we have not won and far from it, but we gotem' on the damn run. Prayers to you and your children!

After I retired from the Navy I had the opportunity to go to UT San Antonio so I decided to become an EC-4 school teacher. All during college I argued with many teachers about what they were teaching. I don't want to get in those discussions so I will leave it at that.
My point is that when it finally came time to go through the student teaching part of my education, I had numerous disappointments with the curriculum.
It was more important that the kids draw this teeter totter instead of simply writing 6-5=1. They are so concerned about the process, who cares if they know how to get the correct answer. History is geared around teaching the kids to hate America. Science is geared around climate change and respecting the planet. Well, the second part don't sound too bad but it is biased also.
I graduated in 2007, took the state exam, passed it with flying colors, got certified to teach in Texas and never even applied for a job. I decided that I could not teach the crap they are shoving down our kids throats. Instead, my grandson goes to public school and then I teach him the real lessons when he gets home.

I heard on a radio station news back in the mid 1990’s that college students at some college in the United States were given a test that was given to students graduating the 8th grade back in the 1890’s and the college students had trouble passing it. The government for years has talked about doing something to improve education in the United States. Looks to me like they need to start teaching the way they did in the 1890’s, with strong emphasis on the basics, reading, writing and math. My granddad, born in 1890 was fantastic at math. When I was in grade school he would help me with my homework. One time he let me give him multiple, two and three digit numbers to add up. I think I gave him about a dozen or more. After I gave him the last number he drew the line and the bottom and wrote the answer right away. I checked it by slowly adding the numbers one at a time and his answer was correct. He was able to add the numbers up in his head as he wrote them down. I have never seen anyone else able to do that. I have tried to do that many times since then and can do it for a few two digit numbers at a time but no where near as well or as fast as he could. I know he went to a business college in Kansas City Missouri and he also managed a Safeway store back in the 1930’s to the 1940’s.

And the liberals wonder why we would ever send our kids to private schools.

Kick butts, and take names!

This is not chaotic, it is a well thought out plan for making sure that children never learn to reason and thus insure submissive compliance and loyalty to the new order. There will be no authority (parents, god, church, bible, friends, philosophy etc) except for the One who is all-knowing and the perfect good. Plato could not have designed Utopia better.

As I have previously stated, any movement containing the word 'common' should get you to head for the exits.

One of the things that strikes me is the amount of parent involvement with this issue over the last few months. Interesting that it takes something like this to get so many to stand up and dig in to find out what's happening to their children. We can only hope that this involvement will continue until the parents once more gain control of their children's education.

I agree - not being allowed to "talk about it" has to be the last straw added together with all of the other stories about how absurd especially the math is now. Orwell predicted that math would come to this. 2+2 no longer equal's 4 and the worst part is that is only takes one generation of kids being taught this way to make it stick. Fortunately many are waking up and trying to put and end to this before it can take hold. The group I work with is collecting up all of the public school horror stories by putting out an open call to parents to tell their stories. Maybe if enough people speak out somebody will start listening. If you want to tell your story, here's the link: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/pr...

for what it is worth you have my support with EVERY ACTION you take.

I have taught in public school and this sounds very fishy, I am/was allowed to talk about Common core as much as I needed. The whole plan was to make it so that different places around the country would be on similar or the same teaching schedule to make education more uniform but it sounds like something much more sinister is in the works. How things change in such a short period of time...

Good luck non mooch. If CC is so great you would think they would want to brag about.

I agree you should escalate to management. I would not be surprised if he said that because he didn't know the answer. Stupidity is much more common than plots.

If it turns out to be on purpose, you'll decide whether you want to make a case out of it to help bring about reforms or if you'll just go to another school. I respect both approaches.

Remember we're talking about taking a handout. I have very low expectations when I'm getting a free gov't benefit. It might suck and not be worthwhile to reform. It might be better off to send them to some other school.

NMA, here are some fantastic links my better half strongly encourages you & everyone else who's really had enough of these communists using our children for experiments.

This has a list of all the groups fighting CC in every state. http://truthinamericaneducation.com/abou...
http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/
Invisible Serfs Rubin Eubanks is an author and an attorney. She is doing a deep investigation into who is behind the Soviet psychological experiment we know as common core. Her book is called "Credentialed To Destroy: How and Why Education became a weapon."

And don't forget the deliberate dumbing down.com: http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/ind...

There you go. It's a lot of information, so take your time &; give 'em hell.

Stand-by NMA, my better half is coming up with an answer for you!

I'm sorry you have to go through that. The reality is quite grim on that topic. I could give you books and books of information that would prove that it is every bit as bad as you think it is. Probably worse.

At least you are awake enough to see it.

Supporters of Common Core are falsely of the belief that studying "trig" in the 8th grade will teach young people to compete in the "global marketplace." But all it does teach them is to be unimaginative robots in service to collective systems and statist governments without question. It is really bad stuff.

Not talking about Common Core with students is a Teacher / School / District policy, not a Common Core Policy.

Ask to see where in the Common Core standards discussing the standards with students is covered. ( Politely asking to see where a policy is documented is a good reality test. Frequently you discover that there is no such documentation and that it is just an excuse. ) The Common Core Standards are specified at www.commoncore.org. When states accept the Common Core Standards they may make some modifications but many have adopted the standards as is.

This is public education push back (aka passive resistance) against a policy the administration does not want to implement.

This is a replay of NCLB, the original intent has a lot of value. There may be some implementation problems which need to be addressed but the underlying idea is valid. At the middle level the administration does not like or accept the policy so it is implemented in such a way [and at such cost] as to make it fail. Think of how the implementation would go on these policies if those involved in the implementation supported the policy.

Withdrawing a child from Public School sends a very real message to the district because it has financial implications. The district no longer receives the dollars to educate this student. If enough parents do this then the school budget is impacted.

The purpose of many school districts has become to continue to employ staff rather than educate students. These policies come with dollars for implementation thereby providing more jobs so the district accepts and appears to implement the policy. Rather than addressing the implementation problems, they are used as opportunities to demonstrate the policies short comings at the expense of the students.

The purpose of most Charter and Private schools is to educate students. Some Charter and Private schools have been implementing Common Core standards for a long time. Take a look at Core Knowledge Schools
[www.coreknowledge.org ] This is where the Common Core Standards originated.

Let you kid stay home and maybe actually spend some time with you learning something useful.

Like teach your daughter the geometry, trigonometry or better yet the stats involved in baseball. The test is complete BS and you should blow that off as well.

A little story. Several years ago my aunt who taught 2nd grade, got on to me when she heard me telling my oldest that she has the right to question authority. When I turned to my aunt and asked her where America would be today if our founding fathers had a similar view. She tried to tell me that that was different. So I responded with a quote from the Bible, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." My aunt is one of those Holy Roller types and all she did was close her mouth and then she left my house, she never came back.