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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm genuinely curious -- is all the talk of prepping to get into AAP something that has taken off in the past few years? My daughter (in AAP) was in second grade five years ago and there was zero talk of test prep, workbooks, etc.(But I wasn't on DCUM then!) I really didn't have any of this stuff, that fills up whole threads on here, on the radar. It might have been because our base school was one that had a lot of issues with academics so the school and many parents were focused greatly on just raising the standardized test scores overall, so maybe those families with kids who were eventually AAP-bound (which meant leaving that base school, for sure) just never heard about all this prep talk. I am not asking because I feel we should have prepped -- that boat sailed long ago -- but because I've been a bit baffled to see all the threads on DCUM for and against AAP prep. Is this a pretty recent "industry"?[/quote]

There are one-two really bitter parents on this forum who think that their kid did not get a fair chance at AAP because other people (usually blaming Asians) prepped their kids.  According to these posters, it is scores and scores of parents who do this.  They have first hand knowledge that all these families are gaming the system, except for themselves :)

You can tell the tone and writing style of the main posters crying foul.  Then it gets parroted, embellished, etc, a big game of telephone where people hear that everyone is testing.

In reality, with three fcps kids (one a current 2nd grader and another in a center), I have never heard of a single family that actually prepped for these things, beyond what they would have done whether or not this test was happening.  There is the kid who complains about being forced to do Kumon for math (mom let him drop it this year), and the handful of kids who go to Chinese school every week, but no giant test prep machine.

It is mostly a bunch of manufactured drama by a few posters with buckets of sour grapes.[/quote]

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