> I noticed enough other places where the good ideas had been visibly chewed on by "the process" that I'm still not ecstatic about "common core", but at least t

> I noticed enough other places where the good ideas had been visibly chewed on by "the process" that I'm still not ecstatic about "common core", but at least the bits I've seen (up to first grade now) I do concede that there were good ideas at the beginning of the process. I'm not entirely convinced they made it through correctly, but they were there at the start. (Still a bit pissed that they took my kid who was adding single-digit numbers in his head and forced him to count on his fingers because That's What The Curriculum Says, though. Seems to have gotten over it by the end of the year, though, so no permanent damage. Still.) The standards are being ruined by terrible curricula providers, to the point where people conflate the standards and the curricula.