We've been told again and again that the Common Core Standards are being put into place to prepare our students to be ready for college & career when they graduate high school. These standards are supposed to better prepare students for life.
So why are schools buying textbooks to implement them? If these standards are supposed to prepare our kids for life, wouldn't it make sense that the best way to teach them would be through life simulations?
Shouldn't every one of these standards have a real-world application? And if so, why aren't we giving students the opportunity to use them in real-world settings?
The more we make a separation between the "real world" and the "fake world" of school, the more students will realize that we are irrelevant. And they'll be right.
