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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone with an advanced math student knows this is all true. The only ones denying don't have strong math students. [/quote]

No, it's quite the opposite. It's very clear what happened with VMPI - it's well documented - and some people are misrepresenting it for ulterior purposes.

-strong math parent to strong math kids
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Well I don’t know what to tell you. My 5th grader has fewer options to accelerate (and has to jump through more hoops) than my 8th grader did. That is a FACT. We are making 5th grade math selections (for 6th) as I type this.[/quote]

And that has nothing to do with VMPI which never even put out a draft and is now dead. 
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But that’s the direction it was going. Don’t pee in my face and tell me it’s raining. Again, I didn’t vote for Youngkin but this is one silver lining. [/quote]

No, it wasn’t going in that direction. VDOE clearly stated that they weren’t going to ban advanced math/acceleration. School districts could still accelerate and offer classes as they wanted - just like they do today. Even now that VMPI is dead, school districts will manage their math offerings as they see fit.

Your frustration with your school district was misplaced. Hopefully your kids have better reasoning skills than you.

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They can discourage it without banning it. And the other aspects they described didn’t seem great either. Why does something need to change every 7 years just because someone says so? Anyway it’s moot thank goodness.[/quote]

It doesn’t matter if VDOE discourages or not. School districts ultimately decide on how much to accelerate or not. They felt like they were accelerating too many kids too much (3 years) and pulled back to 1-2 years.

One of the big ideas for VMPI (and this [u]was[/u] in the infographic) was to offer additional advanced math topics for kids who won’t need calculus down the line. Seemed like that was worth exploring to me. 
 
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