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Your Turn #236
presented by Peter Kohler

In a recent editorial supporting testing related to the new Common Core curriculum, we mentioned State Education Commissioner John King’s advice to worried parents:

“It’s really important for parents to send a message of try your best,” he said. “I get that it’s hard. At the same time, I want my daughters to be people who try things that are hard.”

Michele Trageser of Merrick responds:

“Ask John King how he justifies that advice when his own children will not take these exams since they attend a Montessori school, based on a completely different approach to education than the one he is telling us to accept.”

King’s office confirms that his children attend private school, but says they must take state tests. Callers expressed other concerns.

Stacey Portmore Davies, Huntington Station:

“Students have not been given enough time, and teachers have not been given enough materials in order to get them ready to pass the tests and to do well on them.”

Rose Ryan, Westbury:

“Shame on Albany. They need to come down here and take these tests, just like our children. And I bet you they can’t do the damn testing. Do away with the New York State tests. Our children are getting burned out.”

Strong responses from viewers tested by testing, and taking their turn.

Common Core Curriculum & Assessments
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Common Core Anxiety
Apr 19, 2013
When a mother asked how she could relieve her daughter’s fear of failing the state’s tough new tests, State Education Commissioner John King answered as a parent. “I think it’s really important for parents to send a message of try your best,” King said. “As a parent, as a person, I get that it’s hard to have that conversation. At the same time, I want my daughters to be people who try things that are hard.” But as another mother, Denise Carmine of Massapequa Park, told News 12, “I was basically setting them up to fail if I allowed them to take the test…”
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