I have contacted you several times in the past in an effort to halt the implementation of the Common Core Standards in New York State. Today, I am once again taking the opportunity to IMPLORE you to PLEASE not allow a companion bill for A8929 to be put forth.
I believe that Senate bill S6604 (and it's companion, A8844) takes the right, balanced approach to stopping implementation in order to fully examine the Common Core Standards. We cannot afford to blindly accept the assurance put forth by the non-educators who compiled the CCSS that the Common Core Standards "will provide college and career readiness". There really hasn't been ANY research or proof provided. Would you take a medicine that had not been properly tested, its ingredients not scrutinized, nor its effects not fully researched and proven? Why, then, would we accept the educational equivalent of an un-vetted pharmaceutical? Our children are much too important.
IF the CCSS are as good as they purport, then they will withstand the sunlight of scrutiny by educators. If they are unsound and developmentally inappropriate, however, wouldn't you agree that it is best to rid ourselves of them before they further damage our children? Why are we rushing to take this drug that we aren't sure isn't poison?
Please support S6604 rather than A8929, as the former will allow New York State to do what is best for our children, which is to Stop it and Fix it OR Scrap it.
