Common Core - Out Of Synch Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Silently listening as I sit in my Granddaughter's fourth
grade classroom, a history lesson being given.

Purporting to be about Arizona History, yet it seems to
start with Christopher Columbus and ends up about Mexican
Americans only.

Then on to math., simple word problems, easy to solve,
yet common core makes an ordeal out of it, asking for
illustrations of each part of the problem.

Mapping out every single step which seems to be out of
synch with mathematical truths.

Causing problems to have a huge solution, taking up a lot
of paper to finally come to an answer.

A total waste of time and energy when all you have to do
is multiply and add to answer the problem, like in days
when we were younger.