Teachers Reject Common Core in NY

You Won’t Believe What These Teachers Are Saying about Common Core (this is crazy)

Jennifer Rickert, who teaches sixth grade English in upstate New York recently appeared before her school board and requested to be reassigned away from the Common Core ELA Assessment tests. She explained to the board that she believes the Common Core curriculum is beyond a sixth-grader’s language capabilities. In fact, she referred to the testing as “cruel and harmful,” and she said she does not “believe in knowingly setting my students up for failure.”

Pools show 49 percent of New York voters would like to eliminate Common Core. A Long Island teacher, Beth Dimino, has also opted out of Common Core. She hopes other teachers will follow her and Rickert, and “cause this entire nonsensical system to implode.”

Dimino has taught science for 16 years. She garnered media attention two years ago when she described the Common Core curriculum as “child abuse.”

Many students have also opted out of Common Core, which has created problems for school districts in securing federal grant money.

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