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In reply to the discussion: Common Core teaches Gettysburg Address with no context or background. Unbelievable. [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)I do not think you read either my post or the linked material. And it has nothing to do with what teachers have done. Some do, some don't. Additionally, the Common Core curriculum is broad and can be executed in many different ways by different teachers.
What is this "me" thing you are speaking of? I don't even know you, and I was not posting a "gotcha post" (whatever that is) against you or any other teacher. If you think so, you need to go back to school.
I hope your rude and ill-considered post is not an indication of your attitude in the classroom. My kids' public school teachers were great (well 95% were great and 5% were stinko) in a district that had precise and high curriculum guides. They went to school in Minnesota. Thank goodness they did not go to school in, say, Mississippi. I think many of the excellent teachers my kids had over the years would welcome these kinds of curriculum guidelines. And for states that have never had them, they are probably a vast improvement.
Let's not talk in generalities about what "teachers" have done for years. And let's certainly not attack posters who have a high regard for teachers and a deep concern for the challenges of urban students in this country.
I'm shocked at your response. So there. End of discussion.