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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Public schools have many mission objectives they are asked to achieve.  Those objectives might include:

1) Providing targeted academic instruction to the students with a goal of maximizing each student's educational attainment, and
2) Decreasing any differences in the educational attainment that exists between student groups when students are separately categorized on the basis of an immutable characteristic such as race, sex, ethnicity, gender, etc.

Parents that prioritize objective 1 may fear that schools have prioritized objective 2 and those parents may further be skeptical that objective 2 can be achieved concurrently with objective 1.

I think I'm hearing those parents ask that schools commit to objective 1 as the highest priority, and there is a perception that programs like VMPI do not commit to objective 1 as the highest priority (and, it is perceived, that the program either plainly states or suggests that it is not). Those parents may further perceive educators as dodging the question.  People are angsty and its playing out here.

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VMPI had multiple changes they were considering. Some aspects were focused on #1 and some were focused on #2.

Antsy parents got VDOE to stop considering the #2 aspects almost a year ago. 
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