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I guess that’s what happens when they raise the bar. 
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Is this raising of the bar justified?  If they're seeing that too many kids are over accelerated but faltering later, surely they have some sort of data indicating as much.  I'm all for restricting acceleration when the data supports it.  I'm guessing, though, that there's nothing at all in the data to suggest that accelerated kids are struggling, but instead it's being used as an excuse for social engineering.  [/quote]

It's not clear that they raised the bar.  It could be a temporary dip caused by the pandemic.  
They have raised the bar in that it used to be you get into prealgebra with teacher recommendation, and now it requires passing SOL 7 33 questions with 82%.  
Before you needed 82% on SOL 8 to get into algebra, and teachers recommended who takes the test.
Now to get into algebra, you need to apply to get into testing(I think it is IAAT), filling out a personal statement of child's math ability.

The data for restricting acceleration does not exist.  What they are using is instead that these kids in high school after exhausting the high school offerings are not signing up for dual enrollment college classes, and even that they skew the results by not counting AoS/AET/TJ students who take different classes.[/quote]

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