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Parents should have grave concerns these days about their children entering kindergaarten. Common Core has the system set up now that they expect all out children to develop the same - same pace, same time frame, same mentality level - and it just is not going to happen that way.
Joint Statement of Early Childhood Health and Education Professionals on the Common Core Standards Initiative, signed by over 500 professionals. |
Many of our most experienced and gifted teachers are giving up the teaching profession in despair. They are leaving the profession because they can no longer do what they know will ensure learning and growth in the broadest, deepest way. Standards will cause suffering not learning for many, many children.
Dr. Carla Horwitz of the Yale Child StudyCenter, from the Washington Post |
This is what is at stake with standards that are not developed with careful consideration for what is age appropriate. Kids will become stressed and anxious.Teachers will see typically developing students as delayed. Kids are going to get measured against inappropriate standards and might be held back or tracked into remedial classes. Dr. Megan Koschnick, child psychologist 9/2013
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