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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So… upon review of VA’s math standards (elementary anyway), it’s pretty obvious that they just… aren’t that rigorous.

Purchase ANY decent math curriculum and consistently use it. Many of them surpass VA’s standards![/quote]

Then complain to the state. Get VA to align to common core. This isn’t an APS issue. [/quote]

Huh? No need to complain to the state when many math programs DO cover (and exceed!) current standards. APS just needs to pick one and teachers need to actually use it.

Envision is crap, but there are many good options.[/quote]

You should complain to the state because the state standards are not rigorous enough and the issue with unaligned curriculum would go aware if VA went to common core.[/quote]
There's no rule against exceeding the state standard.  That's a minimum.  [/quote]

It gets hard to match up when the local curriculum is different from the state's. And also there's the issue with curriculum literally not matching. There are tons that match common core. But there are some who want to undermine public ed and get vouchers so maybe that's just you instead of looking to the real source of the problem which is Youngkin.[/quote]APS not having math curriculum has nothing to do with Youngkin or vouchers.  It was the situation before Youngkin and will be after Youngkin.  It's an APS issue.  Duran knows math test scores are falling across the district and across all demographics, as measured by MAP, SOL and NWEA scores.  Yet he literally sent an email saying he was going to watch and wait.  That's not okay.

State standards being different than than off the shelf curriculums has been an issue for ages.  You can work with the publisher to get a special edition made or put together your own rubric to tell teachers how to match the curriculum to standards.  But APS hasn't provided a solution for teachers and isn't even looking for a way to do so because they don't think falling test scores are a problem.

APS only got its act together and dropped Lucy Caulkins after there was nationwide uproar that compelled it to act.  Parents need to speak up and tell Syphax to get off its duff and do its job.  This isn't an unsolvable problem.  APS administrators are just lazy and would prefer to talk more about DEI and make excuses instead of doing their jobs.[/quote]

yes it's been an issue for ages but youngkin is gov and has been for 4 years and didnt' fix it[/quote]
Youngkin pushed for more advanced math classes and harder SOL standards.  That's something.  We now have Math 6 Intensified, a very needed course, only because of Youngkin.  I'm not a Republican but am very glad APS now offers that course.  There was too big a gap between Math 6 and Pre-algebra, leaving many kids either bored or underwater.[/quote]

Math 6 intensified wasn't because of Youngkin. Duran finally gave us more intensified classes in middle school. But you will never give him credit for that or anything else will you? [/quote]
You are wrong.  Math 6 Intensified was added over the summer, in a rush, in order to meet requirements in a new law passed by Youngkin's administration.  APS was forced into it.[/quote]

Math 6 intensified is not new this year.  I don’t recall when it was added but kids were in it for at least the last 2 years, based on what my friends with older kids tell me.  Math 6 advanced was added over the summer because the VA legislature passed a law last spring requiring all kids who score in the top X% of VA SOLs to be in an “advanced math” class. Math 6 intensified is a lot, 3 years in one, so math 6 advanced was created to be something between that and regular Math 6. [/quote]
This is all incorrect.  The class that is math 6-7-8 is called Pre-Algebra for 6th grade, not Math 6 Intensified. There was a new class added over the summer because of Youngkin 's new law.  It fills be gap between Math 6 and Pre-algebra.  It's absolutely new and a class APS resisted adding it for years until they were forced to do so by this new law.[/quote]

The bill was sponsored by a DEM. It's not Youngkin's law.

Also the new law did not mandate Advanced Math 6.

You MAGAs lie, lie, lie
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It was passed with bipartisan support and signed by Youngkin.

I'm not MAGA.  Not even close to Republican, but a parent who is super frustrated that Dems spend all time time talking about equity instead of actually educating kids.  That's how you improve lives: you make sure kids get a quality education.  You don't dumb down standards to make things look more equal.  Duran had years to add that class and it didn't happen until he was forced to do so.[/quote]
You are not alone. I feel the same way[/quote]
As someone with a 4th grader, I'm really excited that the law requires APS to offer advanced math for 5th graders next year.  APS would never ever do that if they weren't being forced.

Now we just need APS to use a quality math curriculum. [/quote]

that is not what the law says!!! so much lying or ignorance. [/quote]

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