How to reinstate accelerated math in LCPS?

[Anonymous]

Glenn Youngkin said he would drop VMPI.
What can be done about getting LCPS to reinstate math acceleration? Currently some 6th graders get prealgebra, but much less than last year, and it looks like next year even prealgebra will not be available to 6th graders.
School board recalls are ongoing, with one member removed. They have enough petitions to trigger a court appearance against 3 more members at least.

[Anonymous]

Before this school year, 6th graders who qualified were able to take Algebra in 6th grade. Pre-algebra in 6th grade is not accelerated, nor does it offer gifted students an appropriate and challenging curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Before this school year, 6th graders who qualified were able to take Algebra in 6th grade. Pre-algebra in 6th grade is not accelerated, nor does it offer gifted students an appropriate and challenging curriculum.

Pre-algebra in 6th and 7th grade are both accelerated.

[Anonymous]

School districts currently provide acceleration at their own discretion - and that wouldn't have changed with VMPI.

Can Youngkin force a certain level of acceleration in a specific school district? Could he force an accelerated path that is 3 years ahead of baseline?

[Anonymous]

Youngkin is ultimately not going to be able to do much about local school choices nor will he care. He used CRT as bait for suburban white women and it worked but he will otherwise completely ignore education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is ultimately not going to be able to do much about local school choices nor will he care. He used CRT as bait for suburban white women and it worked but he will otherwise completely ignore education.

This. He will install a new Sec of Ed and VPMI may die as a formality, but that won’t change Loudoun’s path.

Also Algebra any time before 9th is “accelerated.” Even 8th grade algebra is accelerated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is ultimately not going to be able to do much about local school choices nor will he care. He used CRT as bait for suburban white women and it worked but he will otherwise completely ignore education.

Yep. Democrats who were so worked up about schools that they decided to vote for him are going to be in a world of regret when they see that very little changes in the schools but lots of other negative things happen. The local boards have way more power than people realize.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is ultimately not going to be able to do much about local school choices nor will he care. He used CRT as bait for suburban white women and it worked but he will otherwise completely ignore education.

Yep. Democrats who were so worked up about schools that they decided to vote for him are going to be in a world of regret when they see that very little changes in the schools but lots of other negative things happen. The local boards have way more power than people realize.

Democrats didn’t vote for him. White suburban women who were embarrassed to vote for Trump because he’s repulsive as a person but will happily vote for Dude in a Dad Vest with the EXACT same policies who is more acceptable to them did.

But otherwise, yes, the outcome is the same. He will say schools are no longer teaching CRT and be “right” because they never were. He will say now parents have an open line of communication with the school to discuss what their kids learn and he will be “right” because they always did. Meanwhile he is gonna focus on what Republicans care about which is tax breaks for corporations and the rich.

[Anonymous]

Replacing the leadership at VDOE will put the breaks on some changes at the state level. Sec. Qarni was a big force behind changing admissions policies at selective high schools, for example.

But it won't change local control, no.

[Anonymous]

But otherwise, yes, the outcome is the same. He will say schools are no longer teaching CRT and be “right” because they never were. He will say now parents have an open line of communication with the school to discuss what their kids learn and he will be “right” because they always did. Meanwhile he is gonna focus on what Republicans care about which is tax breaks for corporations and the rich.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School districts currently provide acceleration at their own discretion - and that wouldn't have changed with VMPI.

Can Youngkin force a certain level of acceleration in a specific school district? Could he force an accelerated path that is 3 years ahead of baseline?

He could but he won't because the deep red districts that are his real base don't have the resources or inclination to offer it.

[Anonymous]

It’s hilarious (except not) that so many people thought they were voting in a school board election instead of a governor’s race.

No, OP, nothing about the election will change LCPS’s plans for the math curriculum. Youngkin doesn’t take office until January, and even if he tried to make state-level changes then, that would take time. Getting rid of VMPI won’t change LCPS’s math curriculum because VMPI hasn’t even been implemented yet and therefore was not the cause of any past changes to LCPS’s curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School districts currently provide acceleration at their own discretion - and that wouldn't have changed with VMPI.

Can Youngkin force a certain level of acceleration in a specific school district? Could he force an accelerated path that is 3 years ahead of baseline?

He could but he won't because the deep red districts that are his real base don't have the resources or inclination to offer it.

You almost have to feel bad. They got played so hard. Youngkin didn’t care about your kids math 😭 he never did, he cares about MONEY and POWER, not accelerated algebra

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School districts currently provide acceleration at their own discretion - and that wouldn't have changed with VMPI.

Can Youngkin force a certain level of acceleration in a specific school district? Could he force an accelerated path that is 3 years ahead of baseline?

He could but he won't because the deep red districts that are his real base don't have the resources or inclination to offer it.

The first place I saw a real solid description of VMPI was a newspaper article from a deep red district. It was definitely causing them to make changes. That means without it they don't have to make those changes. But way to show your class snobbery...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin is ultimately not going to be able to do much about local school choices nor will he care. He used CRT as bait for suburban white women and it worked but he will otherwise completely ignore education.

THIS!!!