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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody is eliminating algebra from middle school.  This is fake news.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskALiberal/comments/mwstj3/what_do_you_think_about_virginia_department_of/

"I like how the real news is that Virginia's education department had a seminar where someone proposed this idea, Fox changed the headline to say that Virginia was making moves to execute the idea, and your title just makes it seem like Virginia's already doing it." [/quote]

Looks like our VMPI cheerleader is back.

As we have repeatedly gone over in this forum, VDOE was making moves (publicizing this new initiative through a series of town halls/webinars) to do things that looked like they would have eliminated Algebra from Middle school, among a lot of other things. (They weren't saying it that way - they were saying that they were going to eliminate acceleration in math until 11th grade, and Algebra is taken in 9th grade on the non-accelerated schedule.) There was a huge backlash over the idea of eliminating acceleration/homogenous classrooms, and they backtracked quickly with some language about "oh, no, we'd let school districts decide if they want to allow acceleration."

Before the cheerleader objects, I attended the webinars, town halls, read the material they published, and the studies they cited in their research. There was concerted effort by members of this forum to get WaPo to cover this, but the Post education writer didn't want to. It was a shame Fox was the first outlet to publish on this, because I'm sure it made a lot of people not take the issue as serious as it was.

As someone else noted, this was a few years ago, as Youngkin presumably quashed this effort when he took office. I hate almost everything the guy has done in office, but that's been one of the only benefits. [/quote]

Yes, it's fake news, but if we don't pretend this is happening, how can we get voters riled up over our crazy agenda?[/quote]

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