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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Calculus could always be offered. You can offer any course. The key question is whether students are prepared to do well in a course. By watering down content to only big ideas in VMPI's Grade 8-10 courses, most Algebra 2 and Precalculus content would have been compacted into one year. This would have undermined students' preparation for calculus.[/quote]

They have pre-calculus broken out as a separate class.

And these are just examples, each school district would continue to define their own course offerings as they do today.

Today, there isn’t even a VA standard for precalculus and yet many districts offer it. The standards are the minimum skills that should be taught; they aren’t limiting. 
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VMPI offered a one semester course on Trig and a one semester course Pre-Calculus: Focus on Functions that were to be taken the same year. That is where nearly all of Algebra 2 content (with its functions emphasis) would have been housed. In that regard, it would have been like San Francisco's compacted Algebra 2 and Precalculus course that failed so many kids.

In practice, VMPI's Grade 8-10 courses would have covered pared-down Prealgebra, Algebra 1, and Geometry content plus data analysis content, with just a pinch of Algebra 2 thrown in so they could claim Algebra 2 was included.[/quote]

That all needed to be hashed out and reviewed. They never had the chance to put out a proposal so you’re speculating. 
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