Please sign this petition to get New Hampshire out of Common Core standards.
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Jean Ferreira
9 years ago
Common Core is simply the dumbing down of our children. Our kids deserve the BEST, to be challenged, to learn critical thinking, not group-think and the herd mentality. And NH deserves Frank Edelblut to serve as Education Commissioner. He is a smart man who KNOWS how to solve problems. He does not deserve the treatment he is getting from the likes of Mr. Vollinsky and Company.
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Jessica L Kinney
9 years ago
Get rid of Common Core- let's get our kids a decent education!
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Richard H. Girard
9 years ago
It is an unmitigated disaster.
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Jane Larson
9 years ago
Wouldn't even consider public education when common core is in play.
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sandy Geisler
9 years ago
Please take Commom Core out of NH and all states.
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Donna Manning
9 years ago
Get back to Common Sense and get rid of Common Core!
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Desiree
9 years ago
Time to put education oversight back in the hands of the states, where it belongs. Read Crimes of the Educators, by Samuel Blumenfield.
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Melinda
9 years ago
There should not be only one way to teach/learn. Children need to be able to expand their minds and teachers need the freedom to teach on their own individual level especially when proven to be successful when doing it "their own way". Common Core is restricting our children's growth and causes more frustration than it's worth. Get Rid of it!
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Anonymous
9 years ago
common core is the worst thing to happen to children its making them feel stupid and making their education even harder to comprehend and keep up. Even parents cant help them keep up with common core. It need to go.
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Donna Manning
9 years ago
Get back to common sense. Get rid of Common Core.
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Louise Andrus
9 years ago
We have got to get Common Core our of our schools now. It is sickening to hear parents say their children are not getting the education they deserve.
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Ryan Lehoullier
9 years ago
Repeal NH common core. Cease routine state testing evaluations. Start teaching our children with care and quality they way we used to. Stop the endless pilot testing of programs and curriculum.
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Tim Harriman
9 years ago
I support democratic public schools and I should be able to question and appeal my child's curriculum without punishment.
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jodi lacasse
10 years ago
Our children will not be able to sign their paycheck or balance it! Epic failure!
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Donny Neuman
10 years ago
My sons were A students in a pasig n based arts and performance school . In contrast Csll Me on core as they do is cry and homework is overload for them and me! It has destroyed our family bonding the me and weekends ! STOP DESTEOYIMGNMY SONS SELF,ESTEEM, they won't tribe doing too much work not move I. An upward trigectory motion! The try to ask me to IEP, it's a scam! Stop.now! I refuse to line pockets and my sons are A students but Common Core asks the if they are intelligent not how,are they intelligent! Change NOW! Or I will Leave!
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Karen Bronson
10 years ago
Our school, Lisbon Regional High, blindsided parents with Common Core--never calling it CC, rather using words like new College and Career Ready Standards, taking kids into the 21st century, Rigorous New Standards, Internationally Bench marked. We were duped and lied to--but more than that, never asked. The best the SAU superintendent could offer at a school board meeting where parents went to voice concerns was "these standards have been around for a long time". Local control is gone.
Common Core is a con job and so purposefully misleading in its implementation, many parents don't even know it is in our school. LRS is careful not to use the words CC. I only learned what it was by asking in a private email, directly to the superintendent, if the new standards were CC or something else? The SAU is fully on board and parents are an annoyance. Parents are replaced by government. In addition, at least in our school, they silence objections from students to the dumbed down standards by implementing Habits of Learning. My son complained, and although he got all 4s, the new "sort of" version of an A, would never make it on Principal's List again. He was too frustrated with the new system and said so. His Habits of Learning were the stick to coerce silence and be a good student. Freedom of Speech? Not for kids vocal about their dislike of CC. A letter to the Principal about what was happening? Unanswered. Did the local school board vote on this? Unanswered. Parents in our town have moved, began home schooling, or tried desperately to get into private schools. This is huge in our community and it appears, at least to the school, no big deal. The action plan appears to be: If you ignore parents, ignore student concerns, eventually they will be silenced and comply. The standards aren't going anywhere, and parents will give up. Thank you for your work on behalf of parents and students in our state.
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Lori
10 years ago
Our children deserve better, education should be controlled at a LOCAL level! Common core standards weren't even created by educators it was created by the highest bidders like everything else our out of control government tries forcing on us.
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Francis Gauthier
10 years ago
Get the Feds out of NH shools
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Don't believe in common core.
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Brittani
10 years ago
Common core has done nothing but dumb my brilliant child down and make him struggle. Unfair and unnecessary bring back traditional and stop trying to make the next generation dumber.
Common Core is simply the dumbing down of our children. Our kids deserve the BEST, to be challenged, to learn critical thinking, not group-think and the herd mentality. And NH deserves Frank Edelblut to serve as Education Commissioner. He is a smart man who KNOWS how to solve problems. He does not deserve the treatment he is getting from the likes of Mr. Vollinsky and Company.
Get rid of Common Core- let's get our kids a decent education!
It is an unmitigated disaster.
Wouldn't even consider public education when common core is in play.
Please take Commom Core out of NH and all states.
Get back to Common Sense and get rid of Common Core!
Time to put education oversight back in the hands of the states, where it belongs. Read Crimes of the Educators, by Samuel Blumenfield.
There should not be only one way to teach/learn. Children need to be able to expand their minds and teachers need the freedom to teach on their own individual level especially when proven to be successful when doing it "their own way". Common Core is restricting our children's growth and causes more frustration than it's worth. Get Rid of it!
common core is the worst thing to happen to children its making them feel stupid and making their education even harder to comprehend and keep up. Even parents cant help them keep up with common core. It need to go.
Get back to common sense. Get rid of Common Core.
We have got to get Common Core our of our schools now. It is sickening to hear parents say their children are not getting the education they deserve.
Repeal NH common core. Cease routine state testing evaluations. Start teaching our children with care and quality they way we used to. Stop the endless pilot testing of programs and curriculum.
I support democratic public schools and I should be able to question and appeal my child's curriculum without punishment.
Our children will not be able to sign their paycheck or balance it! Epic failure!
My sons were A students in a pasig n based arts and performance school . In contrast Csll Me on core as they do is cry and homework is overload for them and me! It has destroyed our family bonding the me and weekends ! STOP DESTEOYIMGNMY SONS SELF,ESTEEM, they won't tribe doing too much work not move I. An upward trigectory motion! The try to ask me to IEP, it's a scam! Stop.now! I refuse to line pockets and my sons are A students but Common Core asks the if they are intelligent not how,are they intelligent! Change NOW! Or I will Leave!
Our school, Lisbon Regional High, blindsided parents with Common Core--never calling it CC, rather using words like new College and Career Ready Standards, taking kids into the 21st century, Rigorous New Standards, Internationally Bench marked. We were duped and lied to--but more than that, never asked. The best the SAU superintendent could offer at a school board meeting where parents went to voice concerns was "these standards have been around for a long time". Local control is gone. Common Core is a con job and so purposefully misleading in its implementation, many parents don't even know it is in our school. LRS is careful not to use the words CC. I only learned what it was by asking in a private email, directly to the superintendent, if the new standards were CC or something else? The SAU is fully on board and parents are an annoyance. Parents are replaced by government. In addition, at least in our school, they silence objections from students to the dumbed down standards by implementing Habits of Learning. My son complained, and although he got all 4s, the new "sort of" version of an A, would never make it on Principal's List again. He was too frustrated with the new system and said so. His Habits of Learning were the stick to coerce silence and be a good student. Freedom of Speech? Not for kids vocal about their dislike of CC. A letter to the Principal about what was happening? Unanswered. Did the local school board vote on this? Unanswered. Parents in our town have moved, began home schooling, or tried desperately to get into private schools. This is huge in our community and it appears, at least to the school, no big deal. The action plan appears to be: If you ignore parents, ignore student concerns, eventually they will be silenced and comply. The standards aren't going anywhere, and parents will give up. Thank you for your work on behalf of parents and students in our state.
Our children deserve better, education should be controlled at a LOCAL level! Common core standards weren't even created by educators it was created by the highest bidders like everything else our out of control government tries forcing on us.
Get the Feds out of NH shools
Don't believe in common core.
Common core has done nothing but dumb my brilliant child down and make him struggle. Unfair and unnecessary bring back traditional and stop trying to make the next generation dumber.