Prep for map

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Anonymous wrote:"There is no flunking a standardized test. It test what you know or should know at a certain point. Meaning if you ha d been focused on the child’s actual education and not the standardized test, you should be fine."

Gobley goop from an uneducated and unschooled mind. We all should do fine. Chance favors the prepped mind!

Wow, you don't know what "education" is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are “proverbial” prizes for all standardized and non-standardized tests. Why do you think mankind preps for these engagements. In the name of “ribbons and trinkets”, first place or the cellar, promotion or a bonus, or simple pride warming the cockles of the heart.

I send the kids to prep class so I can do some cockle warming in peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Many children in Montgomery County are taught by teachers and a system that does not reflect or respect different cultural backgrounds. The playing field is therefore neither fair nor equal in regards school discipline or rewards. No parent that has struggled to make it in this society understands this. They had to be 10 times better to get the nod (academically, intellectually, and physically). The silent majority can't stand it because they lack the discipline, preserverance, and resilience from a system that has rewarded lackluster performance for generations based on pedigree and wealth. Trump is a beneficiary of this legacy system.

lol wut.

Love him or hate him, Domald Trump is an incredibly high performer in his weird little niche.

[Anonymous]

So I prepped my elementary school daughter for the MAP test by telling her to take as much time as she can answering the questions. She took the literacy test yesterday and the test timed her out after an hour. I assume the teacher will let her continue sometime this week but she told me she was the only kid who did not get to finish the test. She also said that the test was extremely difficult with very long passages that required her to re-read certain sections to answer the questions, so I assume she was doing well and getting more and more difficult questions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I prepped my elementary school daughter for the MAP test by telling her to take as much time as she can answering the questions. She took the literacy test yesterday and the test timed her out after an hour. I assume the teacher will let her continue sometime this week but she told me she was the only kid who did not get to finish the test. She also said that the test was extremely difficult with very long passages that required her to re-read certain sections to answer the questions, so I assume she was doing well and getting more and more difficult questions.

Yes, they will give her time to complete it at another point.

[Anonymous]

"Wow, you don't know what "education" is"

Let's assume you are correct. Both children are NMF, top varsity athletes, and attending the 2 top ranked colleges/universities in the land. Indeed, chance does favor the prepared mind (and body)!

I am sure they, too, don't know what education is but if I revealed this fact to them; they would graciously tip their hats...and keep on trucking with that "cool-hand-Luke" signature boyish temperament.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone feel the parents are a bit neurotic about MAP tests? I am one of them. If we were okay with whatever score our kids got and whatever class they were in there would be so much less stress in our lives..

[Anonymous]

lol wut.

Love him or hate him, Domald Trump is an incredibly high performer in his weird little niche

There is some truth to this statement. The operative phrase(s) here is "high performer" and "weird little niche".

The only life-long data/evidence that abounds in regards performance relates to lying, cheating, stealing, eating, adultery, and proudly grabbing crotches and genitalia. The weird little niche clearly refers to his brain, vocabulary, IQ and EQ, and bodily appendages, including fingers and toes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Many children in Montgomery County are taught by teachers and a system that does not reflect or respect different cultural backgrounds. The playing field is therefore neither fair nor equal in regards school discipline or rewards. No parent that has struggled to make it in this society understands this. They had to be 10 times better to get the nod (academically, intellectually, and physically). The silent majority can't stand it because they lack the discipline, preserverance, and resilience from a system that has rewarded lackluster performance for generations based on pedigree and wealth. Trump is a beneficiary of this legacy system.

lol wut.

Love him or hate him, Domald Trump is an incredibly high performer in his weird little niche.

His dad was rich enough that he could even hire a guy to take the SATs for him!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone feel the parents are a bit neurotic about MAP tests? I am one of them. If we were okay with whatever score our kids got and whatever class they were in there would be so much less stress in our lives..

Yes, I am neurotic about it because I want my kid to get into compacted math.

[Anonymous]

Doing an era where there was relatively low pressure and the yield at top colleges was in the 20 to 30% range if you couldn't bankroll a big donation. For Trump the latter occurred to bail him from college purgatory by a transfer to UPenn!

[Anonymous]

The boy did not prep like most here. His parents knew what education is!

[Anonymous]

Explains his little niche to match his bunions

[Anonymous]

....illusory bunions at that.

[Anonymous]

I prepped DC before the math test, explaining a problem they got wrong last time.

DC said they got a similar question this time and knew how to solve it, and explained. Spoiler: DC was wrong.

So much for prep!