Jill Carter, Stark City, has organized the recent attempt, unsuccessful to this point, to convince the East Newton R-6 Board of Education to toss Common Core, and she has also worked to organize opposition to Common Core in Neosho and Joplin.
Jill Carter, a parent from the East Newton School District, said her school board told her their “hands were tied” in implementing the new standards and that local control was at stake.
Officials from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) also spoke at the meeting, stressing that while adoption of new standards was required of all districts, methodology and curriculum in order to meet those standards would be left up to the local school board.“If a local school board will lose accreditation with the state if they don’t adopt these new standards, then were is the local control?” Carter told The Missouri Times. “The Missouri State Board of Education says that local school districts are the guardians of education in the state. How can they be the guardians if they are being dictated to?”
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We have had these types of standards in Missouri for 20 years. Frankly these standards are better than the ones we had before, though they are still far too wordy with too much jargon. I don't think there would be near the backlash if you had essentially one page per subject per grade. Short and to the point.
Please separate the argument about all the standardized testing from the quality of the standards themselves. Especially when you have multi-billion dollar corporations making more and more money off the taxpayer.
I don't have a problem with all biology students taking the same test at the end of the year, but it would be nice if that test were created by Missouri college biology teachers so that it reflects what they expect incoming freshmen to know. Same for algebra, English composition, etc.
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