VA math changes - ways to speak out
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Anonymous
Friend pulled kids to homeschool. One child was in AAP in FCPS. Kid only tested on grade (instead of a year ahead as expected) in Singapore math. |
Anonymous
I am the first PP and I absolutely think this is what they are doing. We just driven the plan underground but it’s still there. |
What's surprised me is that they haven't yanked down the Youtube videos yet since that's where the evidence is that we aren't all crazy. 
Anonymous
This speaks to the level of distrust this past year has given all of us in Virginia public schools. Lovely. |
Anonymous
| I don't understand how this can work at the HS level for college applications. Specific classes in a specific sequence is expected for admissions. It is so weird. I get wanting to push back the start of Algebra 1 to 8th or even 9th grade; many states do that as the norm. But I don't think altering the progression in high school can really work. How can the kids who are still in Math 8 be int he same class and progress with students who would be in Geometry at the same time? Makes no sense and it holds back one group while not giving the fundamentals to the other. It places an undue burden on teachers. |
Anonymous
| Thank you to whoever is posting the feedback links. Just sent email and submitted questions. I hope we get enough parent feedback to nix this, though I doubt it. VA will likely see this through for a few years. Realize that it's not helping the underperforming communities at all but with the added bonus of negatively impacted the higher performing students. So lose-lose for both sides of the coin. Thanks, VA! |
Anonymous
| Disadvantaged smart kids who are able to overcome their home situation are already doing so. And this plan does nothing to help the kids who aren’t. It just slows down the other kids from leaping ahead. |
Anonymous
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Reminder that VDOE is holding its third community session on VMPI tonight. Hear more about the shift in approach.
Tuesday 4/27 at 6:30pm Essential Concepts courses Grades 8-10. Watch live (or recorded later): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrbxl9wHScrWKWIEoUWNIfQ You can still submit Qs/comments in advance or in the chat during the session: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesz3YtqVqXtAioJKX0xtYbPxUW6l7dfpbwfdbQyEQ5eTgZMQ/viewform |
Anonymous
We homeschooled our kindergartner instead of doing DL and Singapore Math has been amazing. My friend who has homeschooled all her kids recommended it. |
Anonymous
LCPS school board will be covering VMPI at their meeting today, starting at 4. https://www.lcps.org/Page/140009 They will be covering many topics of course(does every county have 8 hour school board meetings), and no idea when VMPI will show up. Ian Serotkin is on this board. He was the one who posted about this on Facebook, and generated the backtracking. |
Anonymous
If the prior meetings are any indicator, the topic generating the most interest will be discussed last. 
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Anonymous
I took a look at Newton Public Schools, and their first link is to NCTM. They are using Investigations for elementary curriculum and Illustrative for midd;e school. No sign that they are allowing advancement, but this is generally not available on websites. Curriculum document includes "[youtube]Additional rich and engaging tasks meant to meet the needs of all of our middle school students are provided for teachers from resources such as The Shell Center and Dan Meyer’s 3 Act Tasks. " Cambridge looks similar. Burlington is very uninformative, however they have this for the 6th grade curriculum and it looks like a blended approach and probably similar to what we should expect from Virginia if they are really following an advanced path that lets kids take calculus in 12th. This is higher level than the regular track Math 6 right now. https://sites.google.com/bpsk12.org/mrs-crowley-math-20202021/curriculum-overview |
Anonymous
What will they discuss? "We don't know exactly what is being proposed" "OK" |
Anonymous
Here is an example at a CA charter of integrated math fits in with tracking, etc.
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Anonymous
| In a college engineering curriculum, a student’s baseline math requirements include calc 1, calc 2, calc 3, diff eq, and linear algebra. The high school AP program designated calc AB = college calc 1, and calc BC = calc 1 and calc 2. Why would an entire high school math curriculum lead to a high school student to take BOTH calc AB (in 11th grade) and calc BC (in 12th). That student is essentially taking calc 1 twice, which makes no sense within the AP program. And the only students taking calc BC in high school would be ones with the interest and ability, and should have no need to repeat calc 1. This plan makes no sense for the advanced. |
Anonymous
I think county staff will be there to answer questions. If they are going last with this, then they would actually be after the DOE webinar, but they would not have seen it. It is not clear that this is the most controversial issue. There was one meeting that had changes to AOS that went on for awhile, then they followed up with opening the school for special ed, and I think there was another controversial topic as well. |