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Subtracting simple numbers should be easy enough. but not according to some parents who are fed up with the common core strategy. one of those parents, second grader's father, got so frustrated, he did something very unique. joining us from north carolina is jeff receiver. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> i understand your second grade son who is pretty good at math was really frustrated by this common core assignment, wasn't he? >> yes. he was a math test, yeah. >> what was he having trouble with? >> well, it was a word problem, kind of on steroids, so to speak. he had to analyze what...

A little person. i'm in a mask, so you can't necessarily see my face. if you put inible in a mask or behind something like that, you're going to feel you're losing your identity. >> i think you used the word problem, actually. >> exactly. so anybody is going to feel that way. this is not necessarily just miley. look at -- >> you don't necessarily blame miley. it's not about you tearing her down. >> no, exacti. it's a call to action like little people need to stop being seen as just jokes, in my opinion. >> and powerful people -- >> you look at wolf of wall street, and leonardo is just doing a ...

And 6 and your answer is 11 which is completely mind boggling because i don't even pay my bills that way. which i would like to. >> even trying to process it let's put a word problem up on the screen get a sense of what your daughter is dealing with stretch your thinking. draws four ten sticks in less than 10 circles to make a number. write the number that telly could make. caption says is there a common core translator in the house? this is my 6-year-old's homework. that was your tweet. do we know what a 10 stick is and do the teachers have any control over this? have you spoken to them? are ...

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We have been throwing money at education for so long. teachers increased, salaries increased and grades have stayed the same. >> is that a word problem? >> that's the thing. there are two schools of thoughts on how to solve this problem. give the unions less power and tbif students and families more choice. and the other is give the schools maury sources. we have been trying this approach for 20 years. maybe it is time to change course here. it was clear that the president is to the looking for come compromise. he is looking to campaign against republicans for the next few years in the hopes o...