OP, I'd like to see an example of this box method. It seems to me that we're discussing something without knowing much about it.

As ZenScanner said, the standards aren't the problem. The implementation is. Some very intelligent people wrote some excellent math standards. They are now being destroyed by the textbook manufacturers/Big Education. People should be rebeling against wretched textbooks that were slapped together in a hurry by big companies focused more on big profits and less on good books, not the Common Core.

You can rebel against the Common Core and kill it, but your kids will have to deal with the same poor-quality textbooks come September.