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Maybe some gullible people got caught up in it but the falsehoods and outrageous speculation around it were definitely pushed hard by the RWNJs. Including Youngkin. 
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Gullible enough to listen to what they were saying and what they were pushing on their website.  One person posted here an e-mail received from Tina Mazzacane explaining what they were doing.
&quot;VMPI proposals do promote equity and that the practice of isolating low-achieving students in low-level or slower-paced mathematics groups should be eliminated.&quot;
She put up a poll in one seminar and when teachers objected to detracking, she said 'We still have a lot of work to do.&quot;

They only backtracked after Ian Serotkin posted Loudoun's math pathways graphic to Facebook, and it appeared on Fox News.  And the governor realized it could hurt McAuliffe's campaign.
They also canceled the planned video of math and equity.[/quote]

Right. The RWNJs pushed falsehoods and wild speculation in an effort to garner votes.

Speaking of wild speculation…even if that email were true, that doesn’t mean VDOE would “ban” districts from offering advanced/acceleration options.  :roll:

Instead of having a rational discussion about updating the math standards, the right made VMPI some kind of boogeyman that had to be destroyed. Even today people still think it’s a thing. Look at this thread. 
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Tina Mazzacane: [b]&quot;We intend to eliminate tracking&quot;[/b]

You: &quot;That doesn't mean they intended to eliminate tracking!&quot;[/quote]

She never said that.
[/quote]Then which &quot;practice&quot; was she referring to in this quote? &quot;the practice of isolating low-achieving students in low-level or slower-paced mathematics groups should be eliminated&quot;

And how could she eliminate this practice while still allowing districts to implement it?[/quote]

That doesn’t mean every kid must be in the same classroom learning the same content. It could be raising those kids up with better supports. Also, “should be” could be a recommendation, not a requirement.

She never said or even implied they were going to BAN advanced/accelerated options for every k-12 in VA. Even if that’s something she personally wanted to do there was a whole multi-year process to form the proposal, go through public review, and then get passed by the GA/governor.

It’s an irrational boogeyman. 
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It's not irrational. It happened in California/ SF.

When someone tells you who they are, it's not irrational to believe them. It's the VPMI people's responsibility to explain their radical overhaul plan and build confidence in their vision, not everyone else's responsibility to blindly trust them. [/quote]

And it did NOT happen in Alabama when they adopted some of the NCTM recommendations. The comparisons to CA are meaningless.

Out of all of the recommendations that VDOE was considering, detracking got &lt;5 min air time and wasn’t even on the infographic at all.

There isn’t some great conspiracy. Just because one person at VDOE thinks detracking was a good idea doesn’t mean they were going to:
(A) include it in the proposal 
(B) it’d be an outright ban (vs recommendation)
(C) that it’d pass the public review process AND
(D) it’d be approved by the GA/governor.

The faux hysteria is ridiculous. 
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DP.  I am glad that it was shut down.  Progressivism in LA has been detrimental to our children and students in general.  The same is true for math.  Modern progressivism in education is not good for any students, ime, and until they come up with new, better ideas, should be avoided.[/quote]

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