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Acceleration is exactly how school districts can provide advanced math today. And VDOE has explicitly said that they are [u]not[/u] banning acceleration or advanced classes/tracking. So this continued handwringing sounds...contrived. 
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Ah, there's the VMPI denier again, claiming they don't intend to ban acceleration...

Let's see what the main representatives from VDOE actually said about acceleration...

Let's go straight to the [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPUWhIC2tI]transcripts, shall we?[/url]

so if you come into your own mathematically in seventh grade
too bad you aren't on the right track you don't get to go take calculus in
high school so a track is very limiting
to all children even the children who are on the highest
track they get stuck and you can't get out of
it and if you what if you didn't have such great
success or you needed a stronger
foundation in algebra one because
everything builds on that
too bad you took it you got to keep
moving on the track it's like a train
you're stuck um acceleration
chuck and i were just talking about this
the other day in the definition
of acceleration because we always think
of it as just moving just about speed i learned how to
multiply all of my times tables before third
grade so in third grade you better teach
me my two times tables over double digit and
triple digit and quadruple digit because that's what's
next and i'm ready to go faster
um so that is one form of acceleration that we have used
in mathematics but oddly not in all other subject areas
are you ready to jump in thank you for
the transition um so we were talking about it i was
talking about the fact that in physics
acceleration is also a change in
direction and i think we kind of came up with or
trying to play with a good analogy that if we're all on a
river going kind of the same direction this is
an opportunity for someone to change
direction go a little bit deeper
this is an opportunity for an ability to
study the concepts a little bit more
be able to do that deeper learning and
make those connections other things
whether it be science whether it be some real world
problems that you can tie the math to
it's an opportunity to be able to do
that so that acceleration
could be depth rather than just being
able to push further faster down that
river 
so i think taking a look at that and
that there's a range of depth depending
where the capacity of the student is and
their interest and you know what
also provides that chance rather than a
kid being on a track that stuck forever
some kids are going to resonate with
certain parts of the math lessons with
different activities different content
areas
better than others and that gives them a
chance to still dive deep where they
feel that they're connected with the
math
and hopefully find the math that
resonates most with them so they can
pick those pathways later on in high
school
and hopefully influence their decisions
on career pathways
so i think that that depth gives us a
little bit more importance and capacity
to be able to play with
the math a little bit differently and be
able to appreciate
how it fits into our everyday lives is
that what we were talking about shelly
hopefully i just didn't dream that
that is exactly it and and you said
depth and i'm thinking that
differentiation was the word that was in
the question and so
what that says is go ahead yeah
that's i you're right i use the
different term for that
but that differentiation is an
opportunity for some of the people to
dive
deeper into some of that and be able to
experience some of the math
and different connections differently
because
that's what resonates with them so yeah
just connecting back thank you for
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