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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Voters elected an administration which supported this proposal.  [b]I don’t get the outrage.[/b][/quote]

Ignorance. 
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People are outraged because they don't understand the changes. They are speculating and coming up with all sorts of doomsday scenarios.

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It is speculating until it is implemented and people see it in action.  At this point several years worth of kids have been put thru inferior classes.
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It’s speculating until they announce plans. 
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They have announced they are eliminating tracking.  They have announced the available classes for 11th and 12th grade.
They have announced that group work can be used to help underperforming kids do better. 
They have announced that calculus in high school is not important, only 28%, etc.
They have announced that equity is a primary goal.
They have put math and social justice as one of their source materials.
They have announced that asians and whites do better than average on SOLs while other races do worse.
They have announced that they are eliminating advancing ahead in classes.

Also, in LCPS they have announced going to Integrated Math 9 from Prealgebra in 8th grade for 2024-2025.  So they aren't too worried about these kids missing out on algebra prior to Math 9.

Speculating would be if I took their announcement that geometry and algebra will be 2 of the 5 things covered in math from grade 8 thru 10 and concluding they are 40% of the class.
It looks like they are doing everything with computer assistance and modeling and indeed doing a cliff's notes version.

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