Persuasive Essay On Common Core

American education has been falling behind the world for some time now and the US government has come up with an idea that they believe will put us back in the race. This idea is called common core and it has been taken nation wide, and majority of all states have accepted this new education curriculum for math and science. Florida has accepted common core but changed the name to The Florida Standards to lower the disapproval from the citizens of this state, but that is not enough. The Florida Standards are not good for us and are to much on our students.

First, I will tell you what the Florida Standards are and the difference it has from Common Core. When you go to the Florida Department of Education website you will come across a whole

Parents Public School cons list is lengthy but most of the problems circle back to a couple things: funding and our students. Funding for schools is not as high as it needs to be in todays times and trying to integrate a whole new way of learning is be no means cheap. Almost all work will be done online which means more money for buying computers and tablets for students in order to access their new homework, textbooks, and workbooks that also will have to be purchased all over again. For the state would have to do away with majority of the books they already have in order to line up with the other states. Also since science and social studies are not covered in the curriculum states will have to design their own which is more money and means you are not learning the same thing as every other state. The content of what the students are learning is another problem. “With higher-level thinking skills, Common Core will cause academic rigor to start earlier than ever, even in pre-kindergarten.” (Parents Public Schools) Meaning when you send your child to preschool instead of learning social interactions and learning through fun activities, the child will sit at a desk and learn to a test not learn for fun. Common Core takes the fun out of learning for students of all ages by over testing and not giving the ability for teachers and class to be creative and to teach how they want to teach.One of the

Valerie Strauss wrote an article titled “Why I once liked Common Core but changed my mind- one principals view” which is the letter from one principal to another discussing why she no longer supports Common Core. Carol Burris is a highly decorated principal from one of New York’s top high schools and she is writing to Jayne Ellsperman a principal in Florida who shares most of the same thoughts. The main issues with Common Core here is work and stress put on students. Burris states that her faculty began pulling her aside and asking questions about there elementary students who were stressing out. “Homework was taking hours to complete- even for first and second grade children.”(Burris) and when Burris pulled up the elementary standards and read the kindergarten level. “ I confess that reading this kindergarten standard made my jaw drop.…” (Burris) Now in what world should a top preforming high school principal be floored by kindergarten standards. Common Core is asking to much from out children and they are pushing them to