United States Equity Destroys Education in VA

[Navarro]

Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan

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.

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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.

School Board Vice Chair Atoosa Reeser similarly expressed concern on Facebook, pointing to Serotkin's post. "Please see my colleague’s post regarding a new initiative by the VDOE," she said. "The ability to accelerate math at the schools in the Algonkian district has been a well-appreciated option for many students. Please keep a lookout for an information item to be on the Board agenda in the near future, which I will share in my Weekly Work-Up."

The plan for implementing these ideas in various school districts is unclear. While Virginia has maintained that school districts have discretion, Serotkin said on Facebook that the county was restricted. In response to a question about whether the county had to adopt the framework he mentioned, Serotkin said: "I asked that exact question last night," referring to Monday's meeting. "It is a requirement from the state and we have to adopt it."

VDOE did not immediately respond when asked about Serotkin's comment.

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.

C. S. Lewis saw this coming:

The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be "undemocratic." These differences between the pupils — for they are obviously and nakedly individual differences — must be disguised. This can be done on various levels. At universities, examinations must be framed so that nearly all the students get good marks. Entrance examinations must be framed so that all, or nearly all, citizens can go to universities, whether they have any power (or wish) to profit by higher education or not. At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages and mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing the things that children used to do in their spare time. Let them, for example, make mud pies and call it modeling. But all the time there must be no faintest hint that they are inferior to the children who are at work. Whatever nonsense they are engaged in must have — I believe the English already use the phrase — parity of esteem." An even more drastic scheme is not impossible. Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma — Beelzebub, what a useful word! — by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT.


In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when "I'm as good as you" has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.

(Note that he is not using "democracy" in a political sense here, as I've previously shown).

 

[FriedCFour]

Note that he is not using "democracy" in a political sense here, as I've previously shown

Whether he is or isn’t it’s fitting. This is a natural result of equal political voices and the ideas associated. Democracy, universal suffrage democracy in particular, says that the voice of a homeless methhead is equal to a successful small business owner. Democracy sucks.

 

[Laskar]

The natural result of this policy is that kids from rich families are going to come out dramatically ahead of kids from poor families, because the well-off will be able to afford supplemental tutors. But if you're a bright kid from a poor family, you are shit out of luck. You're going to graduate from high school quasi-literate and somewhat good at math, but only barely smart enough to suspect that the system fucked you over.

 

[Bassoe]

The natural result of this policy is that kids from rich families are going to come out dramatically ahead of kids from poor families, because the well-off will be able to afford supplemental tutors. But if you're a bright kid from a poor family, you are shit out of luck. You're going to graduate from high school quasi-literate and somewhat good at math, but only barely smart enough to suspect that the system fucked you over.

That's rather the intention. The elites don't want competitors and are becoming increasingly blatant about rigging the system so nobody else can compete.

https://www.nationalreview.com/news...tion-after-redditors-drive-up-gamestop-stock/

So the NASDAQ head is demanding controls on.... people talking with other people openly. The White House says they are 'following things closely.' Oh and Ameritrade is trying to stop retail investors from making investments on anything undergoing a short squeeze right now. Man it seems like market manipulation is suddenly a really big issue but having very public and also illegal naked shorts and decades of hedge funds manipulating the market wasn't.

https://babylonbee.com/news/wall-st...-top-hat-and-carry-around-giant-bags-of-money

 

[Buba]

The natural result of this policy is that kids from rich families are going to come out dramatically ahead of kids from poor families, because the well-off will be able to afford supplemental tutors.

Also - the well-off will send their children to private schools.
Like they always have.
This is fucking over the middle class, thus perpetuating the oligarchy disguising itself as "democracy".
Like Heinlein predicted - at some point everybody will get a college degree by Statue, as to prevent any mental trauma from feeling inadequate.

BTW - what is the reasoning for this move given by the VDOE?