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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/VMPI-for-vdoe-website.pdf

Algebra was gone. “The VMPI initiative imagines math instruction for students that [b]integrates existing
 math content into blended courses for students typically in grades 8-10.[/b]
● The [b]content[/b] from Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 is not being eliminated by VMPI, but rather the [b]content of these courses will be blended into a seamless progression of connected learning.[/b] This encourages students to connect mathematical concepts and develop a much deeper and more relevant understanding of each concept within its context and relevance.

Under VMPI, you would no longer see a class called Algebra (among others).

https://www.vsba.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/VMPI-for-vdoe-website.pdf

The content was blended in and classes were blended together. No choices were offered until late high school. [/quote]

So if all students were taking the blended class in 8th grade (at the latest), then all students were starting algebra 1 in 8th (at the latest) - which is actually [u]earlier[/u] the current baseline path, which is algebra 1 in 9th.

When did VDOE tell parents that "no choices were offered until late HS"? And that was "essentially happening"? 
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No. The Grade 8-10 courses purportedly blended four years of math (Math 8, Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2) into three years. If so, that would generate three high school math credits. But the three blended Grade 8-10 courses only generated two high school math credits, so it was watered down. [b]In all likelihood[/b], VMPI would have effectively been Algebra 1 in 9th and nearly all of Algebra 2 would have been blended with Precalculus like San Francisco did. VMPI needed to blend the courses so it was less obvious how much content they were chopping out and how much of Algebra 2 was going to be delayed until Precalculus.[/quote]

We don't know because it never got that far. Math 8 has very little new content. And if you aren't skipping a year between A1 and A2 you build on more topics more fluidly with less extra review. And school districts would have been able to define/combine classes as they deemed necessary. 
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I see the “VMPI Troll” has discovered this thread.

She prolifically fought anyone who questioned VMPI back when our disastrous former governor was going along with it; she was and is quite nasty too.  I suspect she was partly responsible for its planned implementation (and it was presented to both educators and parents as a done-deal).

Everyone knows what it was going to do.  There is no sense in still telling lies about it now, PP.[/quote]

I am PP, and 
 
- did I call it?  When I said the VMPI troll was nasty, I meant that she constantly lies (like pretending VMPI was only “in the planning stage” lol), then she turns around and accuses others of lying.

Unbelievable!  And nasty.[/quote]

They were in the planning phase which you can see if you looked at their timeline or watched the webinars…

Not sure how saying that is “nasty”. Seems like you’re just trying to silence the truth. 
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