[killjoywashere]

> I had a teacher for my son when common core was established, who literally told all the parents "my job now is just to hand out worksheets every day." And that's what she did.

Wow, that sounds like exactly what we heard from the teachers in our daughter's school. My mom is a math professor who helps write high school curriculum and was initially a big proponent of Common Core. She has tutored my daughter through common core and now 5000 miles away in a third-world country. She has come face-to-face with the fact that something was terribly wrong. I honestly can't tell if how much was truly common core vs the passive-aggressive implementation by unwilling teachers, but, you know something's wrong when you can literally move to a place where the availability of electric power and fresh vegetables are uncertain, and do better in math.