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I am pushing the fact that the main curriculum of schools should be
a model that allows for a personalized curriculum. Personalization
should not be just through "electives", it should the core of the
curriculum.

Anybody, not just kids, will put forth an extreme amount of effort to
learn things that interest them, and appeal to them. It needs to be
incorporated in every student's learning.

Students associate learning with boring things at school. This only
creates kids that are disinterested in doing anything to learn, or
anything to do with school. Instead of creating students with this
attitude, we need to create students who are intrigued in learning,
and want to be better themselves.

Also, the standardization needs to abolished. We can not rank kids
based on a set of values that we think are important. Not all kids are
going to be successful at those values, and the ranking system only
tells them that they aren't good enough to be anything. They're
humans. Humans that have different interests, different talents,
different tastes, and different things they are capable of excelling at.
Why are we not embracing these differences? We don't encourage
students to do what they're good at, but instead we rank them on
what they might not be good at. Then that ranking effects their
future by inhibiting them from a good college, as well as
psychologically because they feel they aren't capable of doing
anything great.

Students are not born smart (maybe some), like the ranking system
(GPA/Grades) suggests. They are ALL capable of becoming geniuses
at ANYTHING they please, but when you tell a student his GPA is bad
& compare him to someone else who is way better, they feel
worthless. When really, that might not even be what interests him,
nor where his talent shines!

On 7/04/14, AW wrote:
> Hunter,
> I can't justify common core as "we" in Texas don't use it.
> Psyguy is a proponent of common core so he would have to
> enlighten you with CC's program is so beneficial.
>
> I was replying to your "solutions." Most of your comments
> are "general" and various comments may apply to some schools,
but
> I would guess that could be applied to any state or country.
> None of your comments apply to my school.
>
> So I have to ask....what program are you pushing?

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