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Stop spreading misinformation or I will report your posts to be deleted.

If the districts offer those classes and allow acceleration, the kids can still take them in 7th grade at their public school. No one is being held back.

STOP SPREADING MISINFORMATION.

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The one spreading misinformation is you.  You said no one is being held back.  I demonstrated that this is the case in Loudoun.
You say this is because of Loudoun, not VMPI.  Loudoun implemented changes in response to VMPI.
This would be a reason for Loudoun kids to exodus from LCPS, different from the reason you sarcastically suggested, of switching algebra/geometry content flow.
There are other counties that have also implemented changes in line with VMPI's original recommendations.
Regardless of VMPI's current stance, for any county that has removed advancement, that lack of advancement would be a reason to exodus.
It is irrelevant what VMPI currently says is allowed if the facts on the ground in local schools do not have advancement, or tracking.
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Maybe some dumba$$ in Loudoun misunderstood VMPI.

But VMPI is still early stages (clearly) and hasn't even provided a draft to the revised SOLs yet. Why on earth would LCPS make changes based on something that is still so early stages?

Go start a thread about LCPS - any changes are not coming from VDOE/VMPI. 
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Because the committee has been discussing these changes for over a year.  They gave a heads up the county staff who you call Maybe some dumba$$ in Loudoun misunderstood VMPI.
They understood very clearly and implemented changes in anticipation.  They didn't know VMPI would reverse course after the backlash once they informed the school board of the changes they implemented five months prior.
Their reason for implementing the changes- they 'knew' there would be new SOLs and new classes 2023, with no tracking.  Current 5th graders they downgraded the advancement by one year, and current 4th graders they downgraded to the new standard path.
In 2025-2026, they would be taking Integrated Math 9, and in 2023-2024 they would be in Essential Concepts 7.  They did not want to put them on a track to geometry because the plan was for integrated math and the geometry class and algebra class might disappear by then.

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Yes, if they assumed they "knew" something before anything was ever published about it, then yeah....dumba$$. 
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Documents were posted about the direction the plan was going and the theoretical justifications for all the changes. Things were published about it. Meetings were held, and administrators and teachers walked through powerpoints about what it would look like. The administrators simply did not wait until the very last minute to make any of the changes that they -- and all correct-thinking people with beautifully framed certifications from fancy-titled institutions -- wanted to make anyway.[/quote]

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