just look up Dr. James Milgram and Dr. Sandra Stotosky and common core on youtube these are the two experts consulted who wanted nothing to do with it and are now speaking out against it. skepticism has it's place but, this information is so available, so accessible to anyone paying attention, people have to almost be actively ignoring it to not know. i try not to give people a hard time about it but, i have known about this since the 1980's from Peg Luksik. it wasn't called common core then. i implore you, learn all about this and tell everyone you know. this is all real and it gets way worse than this but, you have to start somewhere.