Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that parents should definitely put in comments about keeping advanced math, improving rigor of math courses, using more drill (VMPI was not just about soft bigotry of low expectations but also about more "student centered" junk that neuroscience says DOESN'T WORK), and all that. Please - share your comments.

If those comments are read by Tina Mazzacone you may as well write them and throw them in the trash.

Mazzacone works for Dr. Brendon Albon, Office of STEM and Innovation, which is part of the "Department of Learning and Innovation" headed by an Assistant Superintendent (Michael Bolling) whose LinkedIn pages says that they're there since Jan 2020. Albon has been there since 2021. Their boss is the newly appointed Superintendent. So it appears that only the person at the top was replaced. This is scary.

Do you....not understand how politics/government work? Do you expect an entire office to be replaced every single time there is a new governor? Most of the people that work in these offices are career government employees. If they're new hires, it doesn't mean they were political appointees, it just means that's when they were hired. I'm getting so tired of conspiracy theorists here (on both sides).

Which means that, with the exception of the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, the people at VDOE still think the VMPI plan was great, just great. I'm not PP, but that's not a conspiracy theory. It's a legitimate concern if you didn't like VMPI - and there was more I personally didn't like about it than just the (shelved, always hazy) plan to cancel advanced math before 11th grade. Reasons not to like it? Just look at people flipping out about similar plans in California, including complaints about data science and statistics. Even zeynep tufeki of NYT was saying it's absurd to try and teach data science before calculus.

NP.

I agree with PP. I feel like what we are both tired of is being dismissed by someone (maybe a DOE employee?) who obviously wants VMPI.

My children’s education matters to me. Immensely.

I am concerned about proposed changes. That concern is not a “conspiracy theory.” Especially when VADOE has been less than transparent and honest about what they plan to do to my child in public school.

Do better, DOE.

VDOE is not including detracking in the curriculum changes.

Stop fearmongering.

Stop lying. No one believes you anymore. Your credibility is zero.

Yet again you’ve posted nothing to corroborate your claims.

Facts:
VMPI is dead.
Several months before it was killed, detracking was definitively taken off the table.

Stop trolling.

April 2021 - detracking is off the table
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virginia-advanced-math-classes-equity/2021/04/26/41f3dbd0-a6a3-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html

January 2022 - VMPI is dead
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/74---eo/74---eo/EO-1---ENDING-THE-USE-OF-INHERENTLY-DIVISIVE-CONCEPTS,-INCLUDING-CRITICAL-RACE-THEORY,-AND-RESTORING-EXCELLEN.pdf

PP: what is your relationship to the DOE / VMPI ?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree that parents should definitely put in comments about keeping advanced math, improving rigor of math courses, using more drill (VMPI was not just about soft bigotry of low expectations but also about more "student centered" junk that neuroscience says DOESN'T WORK), and all that. Please - share your comments.

If those comments are read by Tina Mazzacone you may as well write them and throw them in the trash.

Mazzacone works for Dr. Brendon Albon, Office of STEM and Innovation, which is part of the "Department of Learning and Innovation" headed by an Assistant Superintendent (Michael Bolling) whose LinkedIn pages says that they're there since Jan 2020. Albon has been there since 2021. Their boss is the newly appointed Superintendent. So it appears that only the person at the top was replaced. This is scary.

Do you....not understand how politics/government work? Do you expect an entire office to be replaced every single time there is a new governor? Most of the people that work in these offices are career government employees. If they're new hires, it doesn't mean they were political appointees, it just means that's when they were hired. I'm getting so tired of conspiracy theorists here (on both sides).

Which means that, with the exception of the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, the people at VDOE still think the VMPI plan was great, just great. I'm not PP, but that's not a conspiracy theory. It's a legitimate concern if you didn't like VMPI - and there was more I personally didn't like about it than just the (shelved, always hazy) plan to cancel advanced math before 11th grade. Reasons not to like it? Just look at people flipping out about similar plans in California, including complaints about data science and statistics. Even zeynep tufeki of NYT was saying it's absurd to try and teach data science before calculus.

NP.

I agree with PP. I feel like what we are both tired of is being dismissed by someone (maybe a DOE employee?) who obviously wants VMPI.

My children’s education matters to me. Immensely.

I am concerned about proposed changes. That concern is not a “conspiracy theory.” Especially when VADOE has been less than transparent and honest about what they plan to do to my child in public school.

Do better, DOE.

VDOE is not including detracking in the curriculum changes.

Stop fearmongering.

Stop lying. No one believes you anymore. Your credibility is zero.

Yet again you’ve posted nothing to corroborate your claims.

Facts:
VMPI is dead.
Several months before it was killed, detracking was definitively taken off the table.

Stop trolling.

April 2021 - detracking is off the table
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virginia-advanced-math-classes-equity/2021/04/26/41f3dbd0-a6a3-11eb-bca5-048b2759a489_story.html

January 2022 - VMPI is dead
https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/74---eo/74---eo/EO-1---ENDING-THE-USE-OF-INHERENTLY-DIVISIVE-CONCEPTS,-INCLUDING-CRITICAL-RACE-THEORY,-AND-RESTORING-EXCELLEN.pdf