ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Common Core appears firmly entrenched in Maryland schools, but a group of concerned parents refuses to meekly accept that the one-size-fits-all learning standards are here to stay.

On Tuesday afternoon, some two dozen members of the “Parental Awareness of Common Core” (PACC) group held a protest in front of the State House where Maryland Department of Education officials were meeting with a delegation of lawmakers to discuss the new, nationalized math and English standards, the Baltimore Sun reports.

The meeting was the first formal presentation some lawmakers had ever received from state education officials about the education overhaul that’s causing turmoil throughout Maryland’s K-12 schools.

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That lack of information is one of the things that has PACC parents most upset. They believe Maryland State Board of Education officials rushed the standards into place back in June 2010 – the very same month the standards were officially released – without any input from citizens or their elected representatives.

Parents believe the unelected state board members did this purposely so parents and teachers couldn’t scrutinize the learning standards.

“They don’t want you to question (Common Core),” one parent said at the Tuesday protest. “These are our kids and this is our say.”

Now that Maryland schools are four years into the Common Core experiment, parents have been noticing how the standards are affecting their kids, and they’re not happy about it.

PACC member Kimberlee Shaw says parents have noticed a big change in the curriculum being taught to their children and the negative effect it’s having on them.

“Their brains can’t process the way they’re mandating these teachers to teach this curriculum,” Shaw told WMDT.com. “Kids are coming home in tears and don’t want to go to school in the morning, and these are little kids. Kids usually love to go to school when they’re little.”

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Parents aren’t the only ones unhappy with Common Core. A recent survey by the Maryland State Education Association reveals that two-thirds of educators feel unprepared to teach the new curriculum, reports CBS Baltimore.

Shaw understands that lawmakers probably won’t scrap Common Core any time soon. But she’s hopeful that lawmakers will hear parents’ concerns and halt further implementation of the education overhaul.

“At this point, we need to hit the pause button,” because state officials have “rushed to implement this,” Shaw said, according to the Baltimore Sun. “They need citizen input and they need educator input. There is nowhere near enough educator input where the standards were developed.”