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Hey folks,

Anyone have any experience in watching their district shift to the new common core math standards?

There are a few meetings this week in the district to hear about how this will affect our district, and I'm wondering what "gotchas" I might want to watch out for.

I'm particularly anxious about the effect this will have on the gifted programming we have in elementary (compacted 4th and 5th grade math done in 4th grade) and early subject accelerations.

We'll be negotiating my daughter's 5th grade prealgebra placement on Feb 8, so at least I have the chance to hear the presentations before that meeting, but the writing on the wall is that they're going to yank the opportunity from her after she's spent this year doing 6th grade math independently.

We'll be negotiating my son's placement as he moves into 1st grade in May. His current level is hard to pin down, and we've got salty reports that say 2nd grade, 6th grade, and 11th grade. The school has been back peddling and not following through with previous arrangements to make his kindergarten year tolerable. Reasons for back peddling have been these common core standards.