‘Common Core math’ check never sent, cleveland.com reports

Doug told FOX 8 News in Cleveland he never actually sent the check into the school. And almost half of American parents oppose Common Core specifically.

If you’ve ever scratched your head over a Common Core worksheet, you’ll love the check an Ohio dad wrote to his child’s elementary school. Louis C.K. notably tweeted his own frustration at Common Core math’s effects on students last April, saying, “Now it makes them cry”.

Hermann explained that while he did not send the check to the school, he did successfully launch a critique on the new math standards that so many parents have become frustrated with, especially over the past year.

Officials at Melridge Elementary in Painesville, Ohio, will likely have to teach the bank teller how to calculate the cash amount using the Common Core method if they want to cash the check, or find a student to help them figure it out, a CBS affiliate joked, according to The Washington Times.

So, this got my wheels spinning with wondering how many parents could actually outscore a fifth grader on their math homework. I bought a hot dog at a football game this weekend, paid with a ten dollar bill, and waited as the high school kid who took my money consulted a cheat sheet before giving me back $3.50 in change. For example, it’s not enough to simply perform a standard subtraction problem. In the real world, simplification is valued over complication. “Explain how the number sentence shows the problem”. Stop it before it spreads.

Most important: keep writing your checks the old fashioned way.

As it turns out, frustrated parents are making their children’s math troubles worse.