It always happens. I'll be sitting somewhere, a park, a baby shower, a birthday party, a bowling alley, or just out to dinner with friends and someone finds out I'm a teacher. Sometimes this person is a teacher too, but it doesn't matter what they do because they always ask the same thing: "What do you think about the new Common Core?" It's always with a negative tone.
Usually the person who brings the topic up has no clue about Common Core, or the teaching world at all. I usually sit back and let the people around me discuss it and stay out of the conversation completely. People always want to complain about something. I don't see what the big fuss is about. Common Core has been a long time coming. Why fight it? It's just another shift. I don't hate it, I don't avoid it. Why not dive in, explore it? See the good in it. That's not what the person wants me to say. It's as if they are disappointed when I don't bath mouth the new learning standards.
I LOVE my job, but on the weekends I just want to be me. I don't want to go into depth about my feelings on teaching standards. I simply want to enjoy whatever event I am attending. It's not every day or weekend that I am able to attend these events due to my exhaustion at the end of a teaching week.
Maybe it's just me, but when I find out someone's career, I don't immediately want to discuss something controversial about their profession. I understand they could be trying to start a conversation, or that maybe they are interested in the topic but I'm just not into discussing it with someone who obviously has their mind made up based off of who knows what research, logic, and experience.
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