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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Main issue is giving parents only two weeks notice.

This looks rushed. Probably going to create issues and FCPS can then point to this as the reason why they did not offer Algebra in the first place in the past. More fodder to woke equity warriors as to why math is racist.[/quote]

I get the distinct impression, from what has been posted here, that Dr. Reid wants this to succeed and is the only one pushing the program. Someone posted that her old district offered Algebra in 6th grade and she wants that here. It is one reason for MS to be grade 6-8, to be able to offer Algebra to 6th graders.

I have no idea why they waited until 2 weeks before school starts to announce this. I would have waited a year and given teachers enough time to get the training and certifications that they need before offering it in the non-Secondary Schools. Sure, offer it to 6th graders who meet the metric at the secondary schools and let them join the 7th grade classes but why toss it on the ES that don’t have the certified teachers?[/quote]

Her old district was small. It has only 20 ES (source below). FCPS has 141 ES and all with higher population in each school! Her old had only 6 MS v 26. If look at total student count, even including all HS and alternative schools in her old district, still only get 22,000 students v. 180,000 at FCPS. And old school district had only 2,100 employees– that’s EVERY employee and not just teachers compared to FCPS with over 40,000….

All to say, Reid continues to make decisions like she is still in her old, small district and until she figures out she is NOT, will be more moves like this (with 1 week before school rollout) that leave people scratching heads and asking “how did someone think this could work?”

Source: https://www.nsd.org/[/quote]

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