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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh oh. With early results coming in in the governor's race, is VMPI finally dead?

Maybe Winsome Sears will use the assault rifle democratic ads showed her with to kill it, haha. Good riddance, VMPI.[/quote]

Awfully quiet here..  I guess VMPI is dead. Long live VMPI![/quote]

Well, I mean, they still have to update the math SOLs somehow. But I think the advance math tracks are safe. FCPS is planning on preserving them, and that was before the election.[/quote]

Yes, VDOE is legally required to update the math curriculum so [i]something[/i] will get changed. I guess combining algebra and geometry was just too far out there for some parents.

Advanced math was fine and will continue to be fine, despite what the nutters said.

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That was not always clear to rational people who were watching, and you know it. Stop calling concerned parents nutters. Even Jay Matthews admitted in WaPo that the only reason advanced math was fine was parental uproar. The receipts are there in the form of videos and a news article from a rural Virginia county talking about how VMPI was designed to entirely do away with tracking.

But the VMPI insanity was part of the death by 1,000 cuts that led to the Terry McAuliffe's loss.[/quote]

Jay said “I think the growing publicity will doom most of this reform effort.”

He was talking about VMPI overall, not tracking.

It was just speculation from a 5 min discussion in one info session and links at the bottom of the website. It was never in the infographic or listed as a bullet point as the other concepts were.

Here is from the horse’s mouth - Lane: 
[i]“Assumptions about what exact changes would be made were premature. “It is just a thought process right now,” he said. “We are going into the community. We are talking about the standards. Nothing is even in draft form or is going to the board. We are just going out and getting feedback on what people think about some of these ideas.”

Lane’s spokesman later told me “he does unequivocally denounce the idea that every student should be forced to take the exact same math courses at the same time without options for acceleration.”

Lane acknowledged that many parents have reacted negatively to VMPI presentations dumping the labels “algebra” and “geometry” in favor of lists of “essential concepts.” This sounds like evasive gobbledygook to many people, including me.

“If it brings more comfort to align the course names with things that are recognizable, we are open to that,” Lane said.
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Since Jeff deleted the thread, it's hard to prove that you're cherry picking.  But you are.  Not sure if you know it or not.  [/quote]

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