Common Core Thoughts

Common Core State Standards are all the rage right now among teachers and schools.  Many people are freaking out about what this is going to mean for them as teachers and how it is going to affect them and thier students.  Here are a couple of my thoughts:
 I feel that these standards are a good thing.  We want our students to succeed in a higher level thinking world.  We the teachers are preparing them for this future and we want them to be ready.  The past standards are good but now what?  Education is becoming more and more challenging and we need standards that can push our students a little farther.  Yes this idea might be uncomforatble for most teachers to be thinking about the new CCSS, but the more that we read about them and become familiar with how to use them in our classrooms, you can see the higher level of education that we are giving our students.