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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
Because parents are stupid.

Seriously I don't want religious nut jobs deciding what my kids read or learn.

How many parents can teach bio, chem, calculus etc ....

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Under Ralph Northam's DOE which would have been ratified by Terry McAuliffe, kids learning calculus would have been impossible without outside enrichment.
They would have eliminated tracking in the name of equity and put default math classes as prealgebra/algebra/geometry with some algebra 2 in 8th-10th grade with no room for getting in precalc and the rest of algebra 2 by 12th grade.  This is a huge step down from where lots of kids have calculus by 11th grade.
All this was decided by the experts who made equity a primary concern, and didn't want too many kids of certain races jumping ahead because then other races would be left behind.
Everyone in the same classroom.  When parents(religious nut jobs as you call them) complained, they pretended before the election that school districts would still be able to have honors classes and acceleration.
The 'religious nut jobs' saw through that and voted for Youngkin who then cancelled VMPI and fired the state board.[/quote]

I followed this issue and there was some backtracking even before election time rolled around but generally yes, they were trying to move to a Math curriculum that basically accounted for the lowest performing student in each grade with lots of repetition built in believing it would help with learning loss from summer.  It reminded me a lot of the math curriculum called Everyday Math. It was a nice idea in theory but in practice it sucked and didn't really work for any students.[/quote]

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