You know it's really bad for your children when The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of Christian Schools and the Home School Legal Defense Association ALL agree that the Common Core State Standard Initiative should not be implemented on our schools. And you know it's really, really, really bad for our children when the president of the AFT, Randi Weingarten, declares in public that the bureaucrats in Washington don't have a clue.
Weingarten argued that teachers are not adequately prepared to implement Common Core, and that at the present time, pushing to implement the standards and assessments will cause more harm than good. “The fact that the changes are being made nationwide without anything close to adequate preparation is a failure of leadership, a sign of a broken accountability system and, worse, an abdication of our moral responsibility to kids, particularly poor kids,” Weingarten stated.
The union head proposed at least one year of field testing for the standards, as a matter ofresponsibility. She claimed that teachers and parents “must be a part of this.”
Weingarten addressed her home state of New York because, in her words, “they simply don’t get it in Washington.”
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