<p>“Those suburban mom’s are always creating problems…what do they know about education?..” </p>
<p>Urban moms create problems because they are NOT INVOLVED enough into their kids education, suburban moms create problems, because they ARE INVOLVED. </p>
<p>Poor teachers … for all the salary and benefits that they are getting … (sarcasm)</p>
<p>"Wouldnt be better to have an upset parent than an apathetic one? " </p>
<p>Sometimes I think, that schools would like to have easy kids, apathetic parents, and bid-time fundraisers. That’s all they are looking for.</p>
<p>glido ,</p>
<p>“White suburban mom” - is a clich</p>
<p>arabrab,</p>
<p>“Standards may not be perfect, but they’re a whole lot better than the Wild West of every teacher making an individual decision on what students are expected to learn.”</p>
<p>Please, don’t put standards. Each time standards are invoked, they are set lower and lower. The mantra is “everyone has to succeed”. Since not every kid can succeed in Calculus, Calculus will be removed from standards.</p>
<p>[Teacher?s</a> resignation letter: ?My profession ? no longer exists?](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/04/06/teachers-resignation-letter-my-profession-no-longer-exists/]Teacher?s”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/04/06/teachers-resignation-letter-my-profession-no-longer-exists/)</p>
<p>I strongly agree with BossyMommy .</p>
<p>Common Core have disrupted real education and are instead stuffing the days with tests and worksheets.</p>
<p>Actually, standards in math are easier in Common Core. Science in a mess.</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone is suggesting those suburban white moms are stupid, but there is RAMPANT “special snowflake” syndrome in the suburban schools. I should know, I went to one.</p>
<p>But moms of color don’t think as highly of their kids? Or the children of the moms of color really are special snowflakes?</p>
<p>I guess I should qualify that by saying in my own personal experience.</p>
<p>beachlover15 ,</p>
<p>Each kid is a “special snowflake”. </p>
<p>All my kids are very special, I am not an assembly line to made “typical kids, easy to school.”</p>
<p>But who does it apply to? Only white moms because only white moms in suburbia think their kids are special? Or does it not apply to the children of moms of color because they are as special as their moms think? What about white suburban moms who have children of color?</p>
<p>I think the term “<em>white</em> moms oppose our policy” is invoked by Obama administration for political reasons. Divide and conquer.</p>
<p>Common Core standards are much easier and messier than our current curriculum. They don’t teach “core”, they jump from one subject to another, they don’t have internal logic. </p>
<p>Do I have a right to oppose Common Core, or would I be considered “a helicopter mom against useful reform?”</p>
<p>Just curious … where Arne Duncan’s kids are schooled? Private or public?</p>
<p>HA<em>HA</em>HA!</p>
<p>Arne Duncan’s kids are going to public school district that OBJECTS to Common Core standards. </p>
<p>His own kids are not subject to Common Core. Yet he wants all other kids in the country to be subject to it?</p>
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<p>I was offended and appalled by this article. I was a teacher and I have had 3 children go through elementary school with 3 different “new” programs that were better than the last ones. I have always seen weaknesses and strengths in the programs and I try to be supportive to the teachers. Common Core is not working in our school. The kids are frustrated, the teachers are ill-equipped, and our school doesn’t even have enough computers to administer PARCC. My first grader who has always loved math and been extremely advanced in that area is beginning to hate math and school. This is a problem. Maybe there is a good way of bringing Common Core into the system, but not the way Maryland has chosen to go about it. The one thing positive that I have seen is that they are doing more with writing which has been sorely lacking for years in MD.</p>
<p>ANNE1389 ,</p>
<p>Thank you for your post. I also think that Common Core is poorly designed.</p>
<p>I think the racial implication is more to echo the stereotypes (which, as always, only tell you about stereotypes, and not much in reality) that parents of color who see their children’s potential tend to advocate for their children to be pushed and challenged more, and that white parents tend to think their snowflakes deserve straight As just for being.</p>
<p>In my experience-informed opinion, this generalization does not play out in reality. The only footnote-exception I have is that I do have some African-American friends who do push for more challenges for their children, because they live in areas where Black people have been systematically affected by “the soft racism of low expectations” and they want to be sure that their kids have the chance to compete at levels that meet their ability, not some bigot’s guess based on skin color.</p>
<p>My third grader has been coming home frustrated because the Common Core apparently dictates (or our system sees it as so) that “free reading” books are more “useful” if they are non-fiction. So, instead of the chapter books and classics that she was JUST starting to love? She must do her 20 minutes a day in non-fiction books, which, from what I can see, are not written at a comparable reading level.</p>