The Importance Of Common Core

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Introduction:
Imagine being in a line with twenty random people. You all have different strengths and weaknesses and you all are expected to know the same things as the person beside you. This is what common core does to students. It turns them into cookie cutter students where everyone knows all the exact same things with nothing more or nothing less. Common core was created to make college and career ready students. They claim to have “real-world learning goals” meaning that the learning goals they have created will help students in real world situations. With common core all there is, is a middle point for students to get to. Students that excel in one subject will never be pushed to learn more and students that struggle in a subject will …show more content…

We all have a favorite song or a painting we love to look at or listen to. We admire the people that make the world a beautiful place and it reminds us that there is more to life than just working. Common Core is trying to slowly take that away from us. In school the creativity is taken completely out and replaced with workforce preparation. It takes the children’s ability to think outside of the box. In literature it is important to be able to look past the words and see the deeper meaning. The literature students are being forced to read today are all fact based nonfiction readings. There is no way to learn the symbolism and deeper meanings of the things we read. All the fun has been taken away from school. If kids are taught from the very beginning that creativity doesn’t exist then that’s all they will ever think. Without creativity our world we know today would not exist. We had to think outside of the box to make the jobs we have today, the clothes we wear, or even simple electricity. If every student is taught to be just as good the next and all taught the exact same things we will never progress as a society. We will be stuck in 2016 forever. Taking the creativity away is also bad for the teachers. Most teachers decided on this job due to their aspiration to help kids achieve their goals and help them grow into good human beings. If they are given things to teach that does not interest them and they have no …show more content…

The solution to getting rid of common core would not be a cheap one. It would require more teachers and more resources. The facts are every child has different learning skill and different rates of learning. There needs to be specific goals for each class. The class sizes need to be smaller and students need to be surrounded by children that learn like they do. Teacher should also be able to take their time on teaching a subject. For some students it is hard to understand things. With common core there is no room for actually teaching the children only explaining and homework. Everything has to be taught in a certain amount of time and there are goals that must be met at the end of the year. While it is essential that there are goals to be reached we need to think about how many in a year and what goals are really necessary. Most of the things taught in school are not taken with students in the real world. It is only taught to get to the next level. I also propose that standardized tests are taken away all together. I think that if we propose this to the community the tax payer would be on bored. There are 17,370 students in Catawba County ("Wikipedia"). The whole population of the county is 155,056 ("Catawba County North Carolina QuickFacts from the US Census Bureau"), which means 11 percent of the current population is potential Catawba

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