Take it from Adam Heenan a Social Studies teacher at Curie High School in Chicago who weighed in regarding the harm that Common Core standards will impose on his students. Adam teaches a course at Curie entitled Financial Literacy. Does anyone, of any age, think that having financial literacy skills is a critical one? The obvious answer is a resounding YES!
Adam has found that the units offered in the course make students aware of the decisions and factors that go into decision-making regarding all sorts of money issues and uses. As Adam says about his course, "Most of my lessons priortize what is relevant to the content and valuable to my students."
The sad truth of the matter is this, according to Mr. Heenan, with regard to the coming high stakes Common Core testing that is on the horizon for the coming school year. "I risk compromising my students' voices in the learning process, which sets students on a path toward disengagement in activities, then classes, and finally school in general."
That, in a nutshell, is exactly the point...we risk losing kids.
Dick
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