Common Core Lampooned Online

Common Core Lampooned Online
Epoch Newsroom
10/21/2015
Updated:
4/21/2016

There’s a lot of jokes about Common Core.

The often byzantine learning process in the educational method is highlighted through some bizarre examples. There’s the one kid, for instance, who tried telling his teacher that “you cannot make 10 with 8 + 5.” 

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There was another problem that showed the “old fashion” way versus the “new way”--and the old way sure looked better.

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There was one parent, an electronic engineer, who told her child that “simplification is valued over complication” and that using Common Core methods on the job would result in getting fired.

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Now there’s a jab at Common Core from an Ohio man who decided to “put his money where his mouth is.”

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