COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina is joining a growing list of states that have buyers remorse over the Common Core national standards initiative.

The state has become the latest to repeal the standards and seek a replacement.

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WLTX reports:

The South Carolina Board of Education voted unanimously Wednesday afternoon to replace the Common Core Standards now being used in math and English, killing Common Core in the state. The board adopted new standards, written by teams of South Carolinians, which teachers will start using this fall.

Common Core has been controversial here and across the country.

Critics say the Common Core Standards were a federal takeover of state schools, even though it was state governors who decided to put the standards together.

The idea for them was that, with each state having its own standards, it was impossible to tell whether South Carolina students were learning the same things and being held to the same standards as those in Georgia or California.

With a set of common standards, students in every state would know they’d be ready for college or jobs.

The “federal takeover” argument popped up when the federal Department of Education used federal grant money to encourage states to adopt Common Core.

Critics also found confusing and difficult math problems from across the country and posted them online as examples of why Common Core was bad. But Nickie Brockman, a retired English teacher who helped write the new English standards for South Carolina, says the Common Core Standards never dictated specific problems, exactly what was being taught, how, or which textbooks were used in class.

“Standards are goals for where we want children to be,” she says. “Now how we get there, the teachers, the administrators, the school districts, they make that decision. They make the decision about the curriculum materials that they use. Standards are just the end of the road, not necessarily the route.”

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