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Just attended a workshop in our high school. All of the materials used
and passed out was clearly labeled Common Core! By the way, I am a
former administrator, just have not changed my name on here!

On 10/26/14, answer wrote:
> Katy ISD, Eanes ISD where an administrator told a parent they were in
> the process of correlating the TEKS with Common Core standards,
Keller
> ISD where teachers are using Common Core math books, Decatur ISD, and
> that's not even the charter schools which are public schools that
make
> no attempt to hide it....should I go on? Just because you are singing
> the propaganda that we use the TEKS and not the CC standards does not
> mask the fact that parents are getting angrier and angrier in
> districts across Texas. Of course I will answer your question. You
> might just be the only person left in Texas that claims we don't have
> Common Core with a straight face, and it is fun to let you in on the
> little secret. All kidding aside, I will never understand why people
> who teach every day don't read and research at even a basic level how
> our schools are being transformed and the money behind the buyout.
>
>
> On 10/26/14, muinteoir wrote:
>> I sincerely doubt you will read my comments, and if you do I
>> what no confidence you will consider what I say and answer with
>> any type direct response.
>>
>> I am going to ask you one direct question -
>>
>> What is the name of a public school or district in Texas that
>> uses the Common Core State Standards?
>>
>> Can you answer that?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/25/14, newsflash to muinteoir wrote:
>>> We get it. We get it. Common core is illegal in Texas, which
>>>is all the more reason that we should be fighting mad it is all
>>>over our schools.
>>
>>
>> Give me the name of a public school or district using CCSS. If
>> it is "all over" our schools, it shouldn't be hard to do.
>> You're anonymous, this is a non-registered, public chatboard -
>> spill the beans.
>>
>> Until you provide some proof of what you say, your rantings are
>> meaningless to thinking people.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Please don't write me back and inform me that CC is a set of
>>>standards and we have the TEKS, blah, blah, blah.
>>
>> OK. No point in restating the obvious.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Inform yourself. Read about the growing backlash against Common
>>>Core in Texas schools and ask yourself if all of those parents
>> are just mistaken or maybe there is something you don't get.
>>
>>
>> I have read about it. And yes, I think "all of those" parents
>> are mistaken.
>>
>> 1. I have yet to see any proof that CCSS is in any TX public
>> school. I know several private schools that use national
>> standards.
>>
>> 2. I have seen almost no concerns in my part of the state, so I
>> have no confidence that "all of those" is even a significant
>> number.
>>
>>
>>
>>>The parents who are fighting this are extremely well read and
>>>informed on Common Core and they get that it is much bigger
>>>than a "set of standards."
>>
>>
>> I am also extremely well-read and informed, but I am not getting
>> the same information you and your compadres are getting. Please
>> point me to one credible, impartial source to support that CCSS
>> is in TX public schools.
>>
>> I know there are large numbers of people that don't like
>> national standards, you don't have to tell me that. I disagree
>> with the premise; I do support national standards, but that is
>> not what I am am questioning.
>>
>> I am asking you to name the public schools or districts in Texas
>> that are using CCSS. Can you do that?
>>
>>
>>>And newsflash, it is here in Texas. You owe it to
>>> yourself, if you are in education, to be well informed instead
>>>of sticking your head in the sand.
>>
>> I am trying to be. I am trying to see both sides. Your side has
>> yet to provide any compelling evidence to support what you are
>> saying. If you want me to change my mind, or at least see you
>> side, give me a reason to. All I have is your (and I don't even
>> know who you are are) disgruntled comments on a chatboard.
>>
>>
>> Just to make sure I wasn't missing something new, I googled
>> "Texas opt out." I scrolled through three pages of opting out
>> of testing links. Nothing new there and nothing to support your
>> claim that CCSS is in Texas schools.
>>
>> Then I googled "Texas opt put common core" and scrolled through
>> four pages of links. Again, nothing new and nothing to support
>> your assertions,
>>
>>
>>
>>>Just look around from school to school and you will see the
>>>Common cult being imbedded. It is pretty hard to miss.
>>
>> Where?????? Give me an actual example. My immediate (including
>> myself) family works/has worked in seven TX school districts in
>> the last few years. All big city or suburbs of big cities. Not
>> one of us has seen any evidence of CCSS or any national
>> standards.
>>
>> Lots of TEKS. Lots of STAAR. Lots of oppressive district
>> mandated testing.
>> District mandated scope and sequences and pacing guides, no
>> prescribed curriculum or instructional methods. Even the
>> districts that used C-Scope didn't mandate the lessons, just the
>> scope and sequence. One district didn't even mandate that.
>>
>> The ONLY school in my familial network that used national
>> standards is the elite, private, college prep school.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/25/14, muinteoir wrote:
>>>> Just FYI ----
>>>>
>>>> The Common Core State Standards are illegal in Texas.
>>>>
>>>> The 83rd Texas Legislature passed House Bill 462 (HB 462),
>>>> which contains several important prohibitions relating to
>>>> curriculum standards. The bill:
>>>>
>>>> 1. prohibits the State Board of Education (SBOE) from
>>>> adopting Common Core State Standards;
>>>>
>>>> 2. prohibits school districts from using Common Core State
>>>> Standards to meet the requirements to provide instruction in
>>>> the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS);
>>>>
>>>> 3. prohibits a school district or open enrollment charter
>>>> school from being required to offer the Common Core;
>>>>
>>>> 4. prohibits the Texas Education Agency from adopting or
>>>> developing assessments based on Common Core State Standards.
>>>>
>>>> www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/pdf/HB00462F.pdf#n
>>>> avpanes=0.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/25/14, jump in against the scamS wrote:
>>>>> Plenty of people told admins and teacher organizations that
>>>>> CSCOPE was a scam. They knew it. They brought it into the
>>>>> schools to build their own power. CSCOPE is just the twin
>>>>> sister of Common Core...and that is called Fed Led Ed. You
>>>>> don't like having the feds control every breath you take
>>>> but
>>>>> yet most teachers can't run to the polls fast enough to
>>>> pull
>>>>> the lever for the very candidates that TFT and other orgs
>>>> are
>>>>> pushing at us. In the end, the administrators who are now
>>>>> being used as patsies to set up a system where our schools
>>>> are
>>>>> sold out...they are going to suffer the same fate as the
>>>>> teachers. They will be useless within the new system where
>>>>> administrators are already being trained to takeover
>>>> schools.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since you are retired I have a suggestion to make. Share
>>>> your
>>>>> knowledge and experience to join into the growing political
>>>>> backlash against Common Core in Texas schools. I see
>>>> teachers
>>>>> who are "retiring" (getting so burnt out that they pack up
>>>> and
>>>>> leave) and they allow the system to beat them up.
>>>> Experienced
>>>>> teachers, such as yourself, who know how the classroom is
>>>>> supposed to run when teachers have autonomy are needed in
>>>> the
>>>>> behind-the-scenes pushback movement. Do a search for Texas
>>>> Opt
>>>>> Out and you will read about the brewing firestorm. Jump in.
>>>>> We need you because you are honest and willing to speak
>>>> out.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/24/14, shill wrote:
>>>>>> I DO agree that C-Scope really WASN'T for MY classroom,
>>>> but
>>>>>> I could tell THAT after USING it the first year without
>>>>>> anyone having to inform me on some chat board. In fact,
>>>>>> that's EXACTLY why I quit using it! It wasn't fit for ANY
>>>>>> classroom as far as I am concerned. However I wish someone
>>>>>> had told ADMINISTRATION that when C-Scope leased their
>>>>>> product to them and subsequently when admin forced it down
>>>>>> all of the teachers' throats. Also, I don't remember
>>>> saying
>>>>>> that my students and district were so wonderful. Some
>>>>>> students were, some weren't, probably like most districts.
>>>> I
>>>>>> DO know that districts want higher test scores and that
>>>> many
>>>>>> of them will glom onto anything that they think will help
>>>>>> them get them....including scams like C-Scope. If I was
>>>>>> doing something wrong, then it was the responsibility of
>>>>>> administration to tell me exactly WHAT that was, and maybe
>>>> I
>>>>>> could have corrected it. I repeat, C-Scope = scam.

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