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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The math office wants to water down/eliminate advanced math at the elementary level. Having the same pacing in gen Ed and advanced (“Advanced for all”) in 3rd and 4th is a stepping stone to this.

With the new standards, the percentage of 3rd grade kids in advanced math scoring pass advanced dropped significantly this spring. I expect the same to happen with 4th this year. Basically it’s suppressing the ceiling— one reason why the requirements to double accelerate have been SO insane until now. They haven’t wanted to exacerbate the gap between the gen Ed and advanced math students.

Algebra in 6th from Reid had dropped a bomb into this. I’m not a proponent of it being this widespread— half of the sixth advanced kids at my school qualified when maybe a fifth of them should have— but it’s encouraging that they aren’t going to be completely abandoning advanced math.

I think the haphazard rollout and overly generous selection process is intentional on the part of the math office. I think they want this to be a disaster so they can go back to the original plan. [/quote]

Our school said not everyone selected should take it.
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