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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When certain folk are performing well they are all of a sudden "overaccelerated".  I see you bought the smoke screen from the County.  What's your explanation this year for the declining performance and math failure rates?  Students were over retarded?  Not enough acceleration?  Boredom with the pace?    Lack of test prep?  Which is it?[/quote]

When you're a conspiracy theorist, everything looks like a conspiracy theory.

Here's what the Poolesville High School Math Department said about math acceleration recently:

"Over the last eight years, a large majority of students have been accelerated through the math curriculum, as teachers and principals have been pressured to meet unrealistic targets.  As a result, students have accumulated gaps in their understanding.  Dr. Starr has been working to slow acceleration, but the effects linger on and could take many years to overcome.  In fact, there is still a target for 71% of students to pass Algebra 1 in 8th grade in 2013 in spite of recommendations by math resource teachers and the 2009 K-12 math workgroup that all targets be removed.  All stakeholders need to understand that acceleration cannot substitute for depth of instruction.  Even for a relatively small number of highly able students, magnet teachers have recommended the specialized curriculum available in magnet programs rather than acceleration through the standard curriculum."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/06/11/teachers-why-so-many-kids-are-flunking-final-exams-in-montgomery-county/

I'm looking forward to your explanation of how that really means "We don't like it when Asian-American students do well in math, and we're going to stop it."[/quote]

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