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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you.

This is a serious issue for all students in Virginia.

Eliminating all levels in math through 10th grade, with no students allowed to take anything higher than Algebra 2 in 11th grade (usually taken in 9th or 10th in fcps and other NOVA districts) essentially eliminates calculus for all students.

This proposal is a travesty.

Virginia is trying to slip if through while everyone is focusing on closed schools.

They are hoping parents of elementary and middle school students don't notice what they are doing until it is too late.

I cannot believe the local and national media is not all over this.

It is an unexceptable dumbing down of Virginia's math curriculum.

Parents everywhere should be outraged.

Go to the va.gov site to see what they are proposing.

The VA department of education is putting a place that will make math education in Virginia among the worst in the country. [/quote]

I don't see the problem. This was how my state was growing up (Ohio). [b]No one took Alg 2 prior to 11th grade. [/b]Every student who wanted it went on to college. Kids who wanted more of a challenge did so in clubs and their own time (college classes).

Very few kids are truly gifted to the point they need to be on an accelerated track. That's my anecdotal observation. But, also, the observations of AAP teacher friends.[/quote]

Really?  I was in high school in Florida in the late 80s/early 90s and took Algebra 2 in 10th grade.  And I wasn't a genius or anything.

Not taking Alg 2 prior to 11th grade is really a disservice to our kids.  They will not be competitive.  Do you really want to put our math kids so much behind the curve when it comes to their international peers?  That makes zero sense.  [/quote]

I'm even older than you and took Algebra 2 in 10th grade.  New York State late 70's early 80's.  Tracking works - the issue that needs to be addressed is making sure you don't pigeon hole some students as unable to achieve so that they loose the opportunity to take advanced classes.  We should be working to pull up challenged students not pull down ones that are achieving. [/quote]

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