I'm confused about "Common Core". Are we for it or against it?

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20. Core Knowledge is not something new. Our charter school has been teaching this curriculum for 6 yrs.

Teachers need to be trained on how to teach Core Knowledge, this is probably the biggest disconnect. In my short experience with this curriculum I can only say that my kids love going to school and love their science an social studies
classes. They leave excited and come home excited. It works for us, and it certainly works for our school. They do not teach the test here, yet our children score very high for state. The test questions from early on have a log of
cognitive questions that are essay style. Math has a lot of word problems starting from very young. My children
have excelled and they have surprised me on the connections they make in to their school lessons and everyday
living.

I do think that if your child is behind, has very little adult input it may be difficult for them. This, however, is the case
with any curriculum as seen by our poor performance and many school. I don't think there is an easy fix or a
curriculum fix for those issues. We are talking about lack of parent participation.