I am passionate about education, but what I see in my child's preschool is shocking: 3-year old are spending their days learning letters and numbers, instead of playing. The adoption of the Common Core State Standards falsely implies that having children achieve these standards will overcome the impact of poverty on development and learning, and will create equal educational opportunity for all children. Many children are not developmentally ready to read in kindergarten, yet the Common Core State Standards require them to do just that. This is leading to inappropriate classroom practices. I call for the following action: Withdraw kindergarten standards from the Common Core, and make kindergarten and preschool a place for the young kinds to play and socialize, as it historically was designed to be.

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