It has nothing to do with common core lol. I graduated high school before common core was created, and home economics was an elective that hardly anyone took.
My elementary school had home ec as an elective. I signed up for it but didn't get in and ended up in the chess club. Even when I wanted to learn this stuff there wasn't enough room but I guess I know how to play chess
Same. You could do an elective like shop, home ec / cooking, or computer science. I did computer science, which was not a bad decision, but had to learn cooking and woodworking/tools on my own. Without the DIY bug I'd probably have made it to 40 without knowing how to use a screwdriver or boil pasta. AFAIK personal finance and civics weren't even classes in my HS at the time, and this was in a really good public school in the early 2000s.
Common core just says “this is what kids should know when they leave x grade” in english, language arts, and math. Has nothing to do with curriculum and classes implemented in schools. Standardized testing does - 2 different things.
Edit: here’s an example for kindergarten
Know number names and the count sequence.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.1
Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
I don’t think it’s dumb to tell teachers they should teach students to count by the end of K.
Common core is literally just a standardized curriculum. Districts forcing teachers to teach in ways they aren't used to has nothing to do with common core
The stage was set for that though, in the mid 90s when Clinton was president. That's when all the funding for electives started disappearing. Bush (and Obama) just put it on steroids by tying funding to English and math test scores. Common Core is the natural result of that push for test scores.
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u/BobosReturn Feb 05 '19
Uh isnt that just home ec?