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Angry Smithtown Parent

Common Core Standards are corporate-driven. This is about profits, not human beings. The Common Core is  untested. It is literally going to create a hatred of school beginning with our youngest learners. It is not developmentally appropriate, particularly at the early elementary level. It places way too much emphasis on standardized tests that do not challenge students' critical thinking skills nor their creativity. It was not created by experienced educators, those people most qualified to create a set of standards. It does not let teachers do what they do best. Teachers spend all day every day preparing our children to pass the tests. Their jobs literally depend on the scores. Homework is no longer independent practice for our children. Every parent in Smithtown is spending hours teaching their children using horribly worded, intentionally confusing directions courtesy of the common core. Teachers are education professionals, not businessmen and politicians! Our children's private information is now available to third parties without our consent. Smithtown graduates were always well-prepared for college and careers. Do not buy into the hysteria created by the commissioner and the Regents. Smithtown adopted all the modules. Why? This is not in the best interest of our children. I used to be proud of Smithtown. Now I am ashamed. We are going to create a generation of depressed drop-outs, not happy well-adjusted successful adults if we continue on his trajectory. 

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