SHREVEPORT, La. – In Bossier Parish, parents are struggling to “crack the Common Core code,” and, according to WAFB Channel 9, “it’s a sentiment echoed across the entire state and even the nation.”

Last month, WAFB talked to parents, teachers and school board members for a segment on Common Core called Cracking the Code.

Included in the piece was a demonstration on how Common Core takes a simple math problem for 3rd through 6th graders and turns it into a very lengthy and difficult “extended math problem.”

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WAFB also spoke with a former teacher, now dance instructor, who says her students and their parents are expressing to her frustration over the new Common Core math.

“If an educated parent cannot understand a second, third or fourth grade math problem, there’s a problem. That doesn’t make any sense,” says Vicki Fulghum, owner of Vicki’s School of Dance.

Bossier Parish School Board member Eric Newman told WAFB that he believes in the concept of Common Core, but finds the excess and implementation to be too much and too quick for his fourth grade son. Newman says if parents aren’t able to reinforce at home the way math is being done at school, “the lesson is lost.”

“You can’t take a fourth grader and change the way he is doing math in the fourth grade after the foundation has been laid as early as Pre-K,” says Newman.

Jane Smith, Louisiana BESE board member and former superintendent of Bossier Parish Schools, says Common Core was a train wreck to begin with.

“What we’re seeing is a generation of children that are being experimented on and this may work out and this may not,” says Smith.

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Smith told WAFB that three components were left out of the development of the Common Core Standards: parents, teachers and child development psychologists.

“There also aren’t any textbooks,” says Smith. “There are dozens of websites that offer Common Core help but even those don’t provide a clear understanding to parents.”

“With the stress of so much testing, so many potential mathematical errors and the inability for parents to help their children,” reports WAFB, “some parents believe it is not only a hindrance on education, but the childhood experience as a whole.”

Smith also told the news source that she believes Common Core will be a hot topic in the next legislative session because so many teachers and parents are now voicing their concerns.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal recently joined numerous Louisiana legislators in a lawsuit alleging the state’s education officials did not comply with state law when they began implementing Common Core.

Just last week, Louisiana Senator David Vitter, once a staunch supporter of Common Core, announced in a mass email that he too now opposes the initiative.

Vitter, a candidate for Louisiana governor in 2015, said that, while he previously supported Common Core, he also wanted to ensure local control over curriculum and instruction material.

In the December 1st email announcing his decision to oppose Common Core, Vitter wrote:

After listening to literally thousands of parents, teachers, and others since then, I don’t believe that we can achieve that Louisiana control, buy-in, and success I’m committed to if we stay in Common Core.

Instead, I think we should get out of Common Core/PARCC and establish an equally or more rigorous Louisiana system of standards and testing.