Frustrated dad writes check to son's elementary school using controversial Common Core

A frustrated dad who wrote a check to his son’s elementary school using Common Core has found internet fame after it went viral.

Doug Hermann wrote the check to Melridge Elementary schools expressing the dollar amount in a string of Xs and Os with the message: “You figure it out.”

The school uses the Common Core, the controversial curriculum designed to level the playing field in American education.

And after Hermann, from Painesville, Ohio, posted the check on Facebook, it has now been shared more than 27,000 times.

Though Herrmann admits he never sent the check in, he does joke that the school should be perfectly capable of deciphering the correct amount, given its use of the Common Core.

He wrote on his Facebook page: "I was just making a ‘funny’ with the check.

“You want my real thoughts on Common Core..if you ‘have’ to teach it, keep it in the classroom.

“Homework should be reading, writing, science, gym (I'm really good at gym) and art (I suck at art) but I can't help my kids with Common Core.”

The Common Core is intended to revive the country’s faltering math and science scores in comparison to the rest of the world.

But frustrated parents around the country have complained about difficult system and say that education should focus on encouraging creative thinking as much as improving test scores.