Another Florida Legislative Grandparent Having Problems with Common Core

Congratulations to Senator Jack Latvala for starting to see the light on Common Core. According to the Tampa Bay Times:

When Jack Latvala returned to the Florida Senate in 2010, he says, he had "no idea" what the Common Core was. Because tea party activists didn't like it, the influential Pinellas County Republican told the Florida School Boards Association on Thursday, "I thought I liked it."

But as he's learned more -- watching his grandchildren try to solve simple math problems in complicated and convoluted ways, for instance -- his questions have increased.

"I think we need to have a discussion, because obviously a vast majority of people don't like it," Latvala said.
 

This is similar to the concerns raised by Senator Alan Hayes after trying to help his grandaughter with the same kind of convoluted math at his school board speech a few weeks ago. We are sorry for the pain and frustration these grandchildren have had to endure, but we pray that their trials will help bring about changes that will relieve the suffering of all of Florida's students that have not been accomplished by the concerns repeatedly raised by adult constituents.

Posted in Political Aspects of Common Core.

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