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If your child score 99.9% ile on WPPSI, who tested him/her?
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Anonymous
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I second the recommendation for Dr. Desperado.
There is no "selfishness" in refusing to answer an ignorant question by an idiot who thinks that the key to a good score is the tester, implying that it is somehow a fixed game. That's just bull, and no reasonable person is going to feed into that stupidity. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
I actually did not mind OP's original question. And I think several people gave the very reasonable response that OP should just use whatever tester her preferred school recommends. What I find off-putting are the subsequent comments (seemingly from OP) that insult and criticize everyone, while now demanding to be given names. More flies with honey .... |
Anonymous
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Did the OP ihdicate the motives for her question?
Answer the simple question, simply. |
Anonymous
Well, there's no magic, per se, but probably makes sense to schedule when one's DC tends to be at top of game: for us, it was early day, after a protein breakfast. DD could've probably gone at any time of day and done well. DS would've melted if he had taken test in afternoon. Other than that, we did not do anything special. We didn't even google WPPSI, so had no idea how it worked. We went to a tester who had administered WPPSI for one of our neighbors' kids. |
Anonymous
Cause the motives are so difficult to figure out? (And aren't you OP?) |
Anonymous
She must be. I am certain that the same wacky person must be sock puppeting her OP. |
Anonymous
| We went to the place on McArthur Blvd....Beauvoir (I think) provides a list of three or four places..... and that's where we went - both children scored real high. Does that help? I think a lot of people in NW DC use this service...good location. |
Anonymous
Bizarre. Not one beatnik has answered the OP's simple and straightforward question preferring to speculate about motives and motivations. Pure evasion and "guilt" in the American sense of jurisprudence. Answer the simple question. |
Anonymous
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The answer to OPs question doesn't require posters to figure out motivation.
Is the sky blue? |
Anonymous
And you my dear are "clearly" the district idiot. |
Anonymous
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If there is some way to "cheat" the system, maybe that's why schools recommend certain testers - because they trust them to be honest. OP - I think that you can safely bet that if you go to the website for any top school, you'll see many of the testers overlap. Collectively, we've been to all of them and we've all had good scores and our kids have all been accepted to school we're happy with. Try it.
Has it occurred to you that if your kid doesn't score well, perhaps, just perhaps, the tester isn't to blame? |
Anonymous
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Has it occurred to you that some schools recommend testers who serve on their boards and or admission committees? Have you ever heard of conflict of interest? The seats in our area private schools do need to be filled to pay the high salaries of the executive administration.
Has it occurred to you, in a down year, some kids score well (by recommended testers) in order to fill seats in certain private schools? Explains the epidemic of 99.9 percentiles for at best ... average kids! At 400K a pop for a test and on a school rolladex...what a "you scratch my back I scratch yours" Ponzi scheme. Conflict of interest laden racket. No rocket science here...easily comprehensible to a 6th grader at a Big 3s. |
Anonymous
Definition of collusion/monopoly. You are one who has drunk the Kool aid. Of course, in typical DCUMMIE fashion all kids scored well and were accepted. The scheme is working and keeping the private school seats warm and the testers' bank accounts aflush. How does one get to join this elite club of exclusive private school testers? |
Anonymous
Let me guess--you're really into conspiracy theories, right? |