Parents Let Commissioner King, Know, Common Core Is Dying, It's Time To Take Our Schools Back!

I was doing the usual twelve hour work day for parent teacher conferences, so I missed the first John King parent forum on Common Core, but there's a trail of tweets that indicates Commissioner King said something stupid and lots of parents gave King the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:

King concludes that teachers need more professional development http://t.co/myjEK0Hapd
— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) October 24, 2013

Tim farley says #CommonCore is not here to stay; its dying; parents we have to take back our schools http://t.co/myjEK0Hapd
— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) October 24, 2013

Albany 8th grader: "I used to love school, but I don't know anymore. We are taking a test almost every week, and something needs to change."
— Jessica Bakeman (@jessicabakeman) October 24, 2013

5th gr in tears b/c math state curriculum awful ; if u want to end teachers union di it but dont punish kids http://t.co/myjEK0Hapd
— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) October 24, 2013

Retired teacher of 30+ years. "I left because of the Common Core. I'm one of the lucky ones... It's THAT bad, Commissioner @JohnKingNYSED"
— Jessica Bakeman (@jessicabakeman) October 24, 2013

Local principal: #CommonCore has not been field-tested, and our children shouldn't be guinea pigs for Bill Gates' newest endeavor
— Jessica Bakeman (@jessicabakeman) October 24, 2013

Parent: We need to fight for teachers, who have literally taken bullets for our children
— Jessica Bakeman (@jessicabakeman) October 24, 2013

Speaker: @JohnKingNYSED is the problem. "When are you going to get out of the way?" Applause.
— Jessica Bakeman (@jessicabakeman) October 24, 2013

I'll have some things to say a little later about what transpired yesterday at Commissioner King's Common Core forum.

Suffice to say, King was forced to listen to the damage he and his merry reformers at SED and the Regents are doing to children, teachers, and schools.

Alas, since they're intentionally doing that damage, these meetings will not bring about any change in policy.