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elephant hunter

(70 posts)
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 05:31 PM Nov 2015

Got in trouble at work today over common core.

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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Got in trouble at work today over common core. (Original Post) elephant hunter Nov 2015 OP
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

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,678 posts)
2. I'm sorry you have to deal with this sort of crap.
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 05:36 PM
Nov 2015

And your students have to deal with it too.

I am appalled.



Hang in there!

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