The majority of the states across the United States have joined the Common Core. Supposedly this Common Core will help to standardized learning and bring better achievement results to American schools. But do you really want your child to be common?
Common implies that your child is the same as every other person's child. Didn't God create each individual to be unique with different talents and strengths? Isn't it our goal to help our children to reach their best potential, find what interests them, and set them on the path to a career that they will excel in and help the world to be a better place?
How will your child receive individual help to succeed when the expectation at your child's school is for him or her to be common? If your child is falling behind other students, then some support may be offered to help your child reach back to the common, or average, ranking. But what about those with intelligent children? Will the Common Core help them to reach their full potential? Or will they be held back to what is the common knowledge of their grade level?
Isn't it known knowledge that people learn through different means and at different rates. Why are we still expecting children to learn at the same rate? Why can't we allow those children who excel at certain areas to continue to grow and blossom in those areas and allow children who struggle to have a little more time and different ways to learn?
What do you think of the Common Core? Should all children in the United States become common?
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