Common Core Standards Vs Curriculum Standards

Recently, educational institutes from all around the United States of America have dropped curriculums in favor of the new “Common Core” standards for their students. Many people would agree that The Common Core will change schools for the better, but these “many people” is stupid people. These people have at least one point going for them: they agree that the school system has to change in some way. The Common Core; the American school system’s saving grace? Not by a long shot. The facts say that the Common Core has and will only pull America’s academics further into the dark, spiralling pit of inferiority.

The bane of the entire student bodies’ existence, AKA Common Core, is a set of standards created by the Common Core State Standards Initiative

Facts”), teachers will be able to finally get out those fun, creative activities that have been gathering dust simply because of the time constraints set by the curriculum. The fact that the Common Core Standards are just that—standards—allows teachers the freedom to teach however they see fit. All fine and dandy, however, even though the standards present themselves as the solution to over-worked classrooms, they only add to the problem. The students will inevitably feel like the school system does not appreciate their type of intelligence and instead graded them on how well they fit a mold (Katula, “Baltimore Rapper Tells Teachers He’s…). Take Common Core’s Kindergarten standards for instance. They require that all Kindergarteners have both reading and writing down pat, have an understanding on how to use stems, must be able to write opinionative, informational/expository, and narrative texts, together with other asinine, half-witted rigmarole. These standards have “already pushed active, play-based learning out of many kindergartens…[In fact,] many countries with top-performing high-school students provide rich play-based, nonacademic experiences—not standardized instruction—until age six or seven” (qtd. in Walton, “The Science Of The Common…”). There exists no way to prepare a child for this kind of rigorous schooling. They are only kids for so long, let them enjoy it while they