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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, calculus in HS is technically accelerated. But that’s beside the point. The original VMPI plan was to allow NO acceleration/differentiation through 10th grade. So offering calculus, without offering the classes needed to be ready for it, was dumb and basically sabotage. When people pushed back, they reversed course and changed this. I attended online meetings & read about it at the time. We are not making this up, no matter how many times you say it. In one of the online meetings, they clarified that they had changed things so acceleration COULD happen at lower grades. But that was NOT the original plan.  [/quote]

Goal posts shifting...

I was also following and joined the webinars. I provided summaries on DCUM. Again, in the beginning, people were jumping to conclusions based on very little info. VDOE was very early in the process and throwing out ideas. They were several months out from an actual plan. And, [b]at no point did they say that school districts couldn't accelerate[/b] or define their own courses to meet the needs of their students, as they were already doing. As I said earlier, VMPI never proposed to eliminate advanced math or acceleration. And, Calculus/IB were *always* included as possible paths.

And, back to the OP.....LCPS did not “eliminate acceleration”. Kids can take accelerate at least two years ahead in math.

OP is pushing lies and random articles about CA schools because the Rs have no actual platform. 
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VMPI said explicitly in November 2020 that students would be in detracked, heterogenously grouped classes in Grades 8-10, which means they were calling for no collective acceleration through 10th grade. As described, students in each grade (through grade 10) would be taking math/English/Social Studies/Science together which would permit inter-disciplinary activities. You ignore all of this and instead chose your words carefully to say that there was no language instructing districts not to offer acceleration. Districts are the ultimate arbiters of whether to offer acceleration. However, VMPI was a committee which included representatives from the major VA school districts, thus school district representatives were participating in VMPI's crafting of the detracking policy. To assume that school district representatives to VMPI would help craft VMPI's detracking policy and then return to their district and do the opposite of what VMPI called for is absurd. The only thing that stopped the effort to detrack math classes through 10th grade was public outcry, which ultimately prompted VDOE to publicly abandon its detracking call.

VMPI November 2020 Regional Webinar 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=siS8jlTcUzo
"we're also wanting to identify include meaningful interdisciplinary connections and this is one of the things that [b]excites me the most about having these heterogeneously grouped detracked classes[/b] think about an 8th grade year all of the students currently all of them take civics all of them take english language arts in grade 8 and all of them take some type of physical science class so think about how we might do a cross-curricular lesson with with civics so in civics they may go out and talk about the the political side about a poll and then in our math class we can talk about the mathematics behind it in a real deep connection that just is not possible in our current system." (35:45-36:30)[/quote]

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