I just wanted to be taught how to use my hands, how to do simple math, and how to read complex literature. I spent very little time learning how to do any of that. Since I hadn't been taught how to properly understand multiplication and division, I was severely at a loss to complete highschool. I had to wait until my senior year to get a study hall teacher who actually understood my struggles and helped me pass my classes. Now, I know of dozens of kids who didn't listen in English or History, and they would argue that Common Core is great, and that I was being lazy. These same kids are in college now, the same kids who said "Why do they teach history? it's not like math or science." These are the same kids I may have to work beneath just because they got a degree and I didn't. We should focus on trades, actual interests, and logic, rather than some base-line for all kids everywhere. It's simple. My brain no likey math, but it loves words and tools. I should've had eight years growing up where that's all I had to do. Instead, I wasted years struggling to understand concepts I will never ever ever use. While kids who should've learned their history get to move on to positions of power. I struggle to understand how Common Core brought us here, but I am young. This is the experience of many kids nowadays.