... is its insistence that all kids are the same. It's the sort of bogus piety an idiot politician finds easy to mouth but it has implications for lots of kids... especially sp ed kids.... that are absolutely *criminal*.
All kids are NOT the same and the educational needs of a Down Syndrome 15 year old with an IQ of say , 40, ARE NOT THE SAME as the educational needs of a typical gen ed 9th grader.
Yet the Common Core makes no distinctions. The Down Syndrome kid must be taught Algebra because that's what 15 year olds are supposed to do.
In spite of the fact that he/she can't tell time or count change. Or even count to ten.
I'm not kidding. I'm not making it up. That's what's being done in NYC right now. Kids who can't count to ten must be taught Algebra. Or the teacher must go thru the motions of teaching him/her Algebra. Because that's what the CC says.
Teachers are actually being required to do this.... and then they are required to *DOCUMENT* it.
The insulation (i.e. absolute willful, obdurate ignorance) of the people who are making these judgements from the *consequences* of them ensures a never-ending nightmare scenario for school "reform".
The OP wants to deal w. this mentality? I think not.
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