One fine, beautiful Thanksgiving day, a little girl watched as her mother prepared the Thanksgiving turkey. The little girl looked on in curiosity as her mother clipped the wings off of the turkey and then put it in the oven. “Can we not eat the wings?” the little girl asked. “We can,” the mother replied as she began preparing the green bean casserole. “Then why did you cut the wings off?” she wondered. “Because that is what my mother would do back when I was a little girl,” the mother said. So the little girl went over to her grandmother’s house one day. As she helped her grandmother set up the table, she asked her why she would cut off the wings of the Thanksgiving turkey. “Because that is what my mother would do back when I was a little …show more content…
It is a bunch of classes that a group of people decided would “prepare kids to compete not only in college but in the rapidly changing American job market….”(www.usnews.com/new). That is indeed what common core tries to do, but according to nytimes.com out of those who go to college “only 58 percent end up with bachelor’s degrees.” The only for what job market does it prepare us for exactly? I want to be an author when I grow up, but common core education does not focus on how to prepare those who want to be authors for college nor does it prepare them for the job. I know someone who wants to be a photographer when she grows up, but common core education does not focus on how to prepare kids who want to be photographers for college nor does it prepare them for the job. Common core education does not take into account your child’s dreams and aspirations nor their interests or what they excel at most. Common core education has begun to harm a kid’s education and their love of learning instead of increasing it. It is an outdated and unnecessary tradition. People have been going along with it for years but there comes a time when you have to look at the results and not just the theory. There comes a point when you have to start asking,