Posted on 04/23/2021 5:26:58 AM PDT by karpov
The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-achieving students from advancing as they usually would in the school system.
Loudoun County school board member Ian Serotkin posted about the change via Facebook on Tuesday. According to Serotkin, he learned of the change the night prior during a briefing from staff on the Virginia Mathematics Pathway Initiative (VMPI).
"[A]s currently planned, this initiative will eliminate ALL math acceleration prior to 11th grade," he said. "That is not an exaggeration, nor does there appear to be any discretion in how local districts implement this. All 6th graders will take Foundational Concepts 6. All 7th graders will take Foundational Concepts 7. All 10th graders will take Essential Concepts 10. Only in 11th and 12th grade is there any opportunity for choice in higher math courses."
His post included a chart with what appeared to be set math courses for 2022-2030.
VDOE spokesperson Charles Pyle indicated to Fox News that the courses would allow for at least some variation depending on students' skill level. "Differentiated instruction means providing instruction that is catered to the learning needs of each child (appropriate levels of challenge and academic rigor)," Pyle said.
On VDOE's website, the state features an infographic that indicates VMPI would require "concepts" courses for each grade level. It states various goals like "[i]mprove equity in mathematics learning opportunities," "[e]mpower students to be active participants in a quantitative world," and "[i]dentify K-12 mathematics pathways that support future success."
During a webinar posted on YouTube in December, a member of the "essential concepts" committee claimed that the new framework would exclude traditional classes like Algebra 1 and Geometry.
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We are all equally stupid now in VA.
Are they going to soon introduce 2+2=5?
...and screwing the advanced and/or exceptional students in the process.
Let the dumbing down continue as the K12 system continues to swirl down the toilet.
No more calculus in High School Virginia.
Where’s Virginia’s Harrison Bergeron?
If this is at all accurate, it is insane.
These destructive morons need to be STOPPED. Those schools are there for the good of society. Every child is supposed to get an education that allows them to achieve their own personal best. That includes smart kids too.
Some are dumb, so let’s make everyone DUMB! More equal that way.
This is nothing less than child abuse. Intentionally restricting gifted or motivated students is not only abuse, it is madness.
To anyone who has a child, GET THEM OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL NOW!!!
So now Virginia is attempting to flatten the Bell Curve.
My ‘wonderful’ public schools would NEVER do anything like that - so why should I care what Virginia does?
VA today, but national suicide is on the agenda.
Any instruction involving the word /slope/ is albocentric and must be removed from the syllabus.
The anti-American, anti-family, anti-God (of course), anti-child’s right to learn liberals in Richmond are the only ones who want this. ONLY ones. Here in my corner of south-western Virginia we’re enraged.
Private schools and home schooling will be on the rise.
In the spirit of “No child gets ahead.”
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink
You can force a brother to school but you can’t make him think
Criminal negligence
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