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[quote=Anonymous]I think the angle needs to be different than the letter that OP wrote. The way to do this is to appeal to the people the state is trying to reach and appeal to their goals. Teachers and Lower Achieving Students mainly. And then the angle for high achieving students should be to the benefit of the state more than the individual student. In this way the arguments would be something like this:

1. Teachers will not be able to effectively teach a wider range of students thus hurting lower achieving students the most. Followed by solutions such as pull outs for remedial help. 
    a. Additional teachers to lower class sizes
    b. Homework required to help children practice.
    c. After school help/Additional summer learning
    d. Need additional assessment data to gauge improvement
    3. higher teacher salary to teach wider range of students
2. Lower achieving students will likely not improve with a wide variety of skills in a classroom. Point to studies  that show lower achieving students don't ask as many questions. Don't have as good results after one year as they do with pull outs. Pull  actual data that shows how lower ability students improve the most.
   a. Perhaps offer solutions that involve a mix of whole class verses pull out time which I'm guessing probably shows the best return of investment. Perhaps Monday or Friday of each week could be a whole classroom math time.
3. High achieving students will be needed to keep Virginia colleges competitive and keep Virginia competitive in the job market in the US and overseas.
   a. Data on what other countries are doing and how we compare in terms of math related careers.
   b. Consequences of not having a state with high achieving math students
   c. Actual data that shows the proposed program will not allow high achieving students to excel.
    
I'm not a great writer. Anyone want to take a crack at drawing up a letter that hits on these types of points? Is there data that  can be pulled to make these arguments?
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