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elephant hunter

(84 posts)
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 04:31 PM Nov 2015

Got in trouble at work today over common core. [View all]

Really Tnready, not common core since the Tennessee legislature changed the name to squelch the rising tide against common core but changed nothing else. By any other name... I teach math and my students returned from taking part one of the algebra test totally deflated. I told them about the viral common core problem concerning 5 X 3. They also asked how a quadratic could be put into a different form. I told them about vertex form. I have been warned to never do these things again. I thought my job was to teach them. Guess not.

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Education has become more like a religion. Chemisse Nov 2015 #1
I'm sorry you have to deal with this sort of crap. CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2015 #2
TnReady for what? GeorgeGist Nov 2015 #3
Your job is NOT to teach them. Smarmie Doofus Nov 2015 #4
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