When I first heard about Common Core Standards last year, I thought it was a wonderful idea!   I thought that it would make more sense, and  I compared it to the,” No Child Left Behind”, idea that was put in place to,” save every child”.  Added to the Common Core Standards was the Annual Professional Performance Review, aka APPR, and you have another recipe for disaster.  A Common Core Curriculum is a great focus to have in place, especially in cases when children are moving from one school to another.  HOWEVER, the APPR is not advantageous to teachers for many reasons.  Each year a teacher is given a class.  Teachers are not given the opportunity to pick their own students, therefore they work with what they have.  Many of us have students who are mainstreamed into regular education classes, and are required to be held accountable for their performance on tests.  How can that be fair?  Why should one teacher be judged by their students overall performance on tests?  Why should they be held accountable if a child does not pass their class?  Why is it always the teachers fault? My students take a national test at the end of the year.   Last year I had 100 percent pass for the first time.  I did not do anything different, however, I did have a very bright group of students.  If the people who make these outrageous laws would step one foot in a classroom and teach, I would have more respect for them and the laws they create.