But that's all most parents are ever going to see. I have had coworkers, all degreed electrical engineers, show me some of their children's homework and ask me

But that's all most parents are ever going to see. I have had coworkers, all degreed electrical engineers, show me some of their children's homework and ask me to figure it out, because they couldn't. Similarly, many existing teachers weren't trained in any of this, just told to go do it. The ideas behind common core are not bad ideas, but the execution has been woeful.