Sure comrade we hear ya.


Snip; New York City teachers recently received their new Common Core-approved textbooks — a month late — and they don’t like them one bit.

“They are loaded with errors,” said Rebecca Murphy a third-grade teacher in Queens, in a statement to the New York Daily News.

The mistakes are numerous. A third-grade workbook contains a set of questions accompanying a mismatched reading selection; one of the pages in another workbook is printed upside down; and some teacher’s manuals don’t line up with student versions.


Snip2; Pearson’s products have been heavily criticized for incomprehensibility. A first-grade math test was recently scrutinized for asking kids conceptually odd questions that would stump calculus students.

And a lesson on possessive nouns contained Orwellian statements about the relationship between the individual and government, such as “The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all,” and “An individual’s wants are less important than the nation’s well-being.”








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more from New York, this is tomorrow

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As interest in Monday's statewide school boycott continues to swell, SILive.com readers are sounding off about the state's new Common Core Curriculum standards.


Parents throughout the state are preparing to keep their children home from school on Monday, in what's being labeled as "National Common Core Protest Day." The grassroots movement is being fueled by the social media, on Facebook and Twitter.

[link to www.silive.com]