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Algebra really doesn’t need to be a standalone class.  I’m not sure that people really understand the proposal. [/quote]

It does if you're moving into or out of VA.  If you're a 9th grader who has had some amount of Algebra and Geometry content delivered piecemeal, and then you move somewhere with separate Algebra, Geometry, Algebra II, classes, what would you take?  You'd either be repeating a lot of material or you'd be skipping a lot.[/quote]

Yes people understand the proposal.  One math class for all until grades 11 and 12.  Differentiation and students helping lower ability students in class.  That leaves 2 years in HS for alg, geom, trig, pre calc, calc.  Everyone gets a trophy and chances for good grades in math.  More people think they are qualified to apply for or have the ability to do stem or finance or accounting careers so it's on to college!  If the demographics don't make the cut just remove the discipline or change the program!     Nasty implications for engineering [ imagine structural or mechanical] and how about the lack of objective measurement and surgery? This sort of thinking is now in the military for flying manned and unmanned planes.  Not enough people of certain ethnicities are pilots .  Now the military is certainly open about processes and application for specialties.  I can see recruiting enhancements at certain colleges but NOT mentorship and coddling once in the air force.

This sort of everyone gets a trophy is ludicrous.  [b]Is it a spin off of the TJ issues?[/b]    [/quote]

Not exactly, but driven by the same very activist VDOE. The VDOE really needs some serious turnover so that it's focused on issues that really matter (getting kids in school [b]without[/b] hours waivers, reading curriculums that follow the science of reading instead of f-ing Lucy Calkins, holding districts accountable for FAPE, etc.) and not these talking-points-for-equity issues that actually don't change lives.[/quote]

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