The theme I am hearing when I listen to the "positives" of the common core standard is college AND career ready. How can you be college and career ready when you finish high school?
When someone says "career" I think of a doctor or a lawyer, someone that completed high school and then made the commitment to pursue a degree of higher learning in a specific field.
Being college ready means that a student has mastered and exceeded high school standards and has taken courses in high school that will prepare them for college. Classes that involve higher math and English such as pre-calculus, trigonometry, and AP Literature.
How are we going to ensure that every child from every walk of life is college AND career ready?
How does common core plan to accomplish that? The bottom line answer is, the common core standards can not accomplish that. Not because we have standards, but because not every person wants to go to college or have a career when they graduate high school.
Why are we insisting that every round object will fit where the square peg goes?
I know when I graduated high school, I wanted to see the world. I knew I could not see the world from the inside of of a classroom. In order to see the world, I enlisted in the Army. Guess what, I got to see the world!
At 9 years old my daughter has said she wants to be an astronaut, a veterinarian, a pediatrician and a teacher. How does a standardized test pick which career or college path would be the best for her?
Just some food for thought...or the many ramblings of a frustrated parent!
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