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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prepping is engaging in activities that have no intrinsic value beyond getting a certain score.  Taking your kiddo to children's theater in Alexandria, to see the Nutcracker at Christmas, taking music lessons, pottery, building, etc.  is not prepping because the kid gets an experience that makes them a more well-rounded person.  THe same cannot be said for spending a summer day inside doing workbooks.

Prepped kids end up less interesting and the group as a whole suffers since they contribute less to a classroom environment in terms of ideas, enthusiasm, etc.  The little girl who makes up a song is contributing in class in a way that the boy who recites the multiplication tables to impress the teacher, while not being able to tell you which number is larger -- 35 or 42 -- does not.  But we all know who will get into the gifted program.[/quote]

Do you really think there are kids who recite multiplication tables but don't know that 42 is larger than 35?  Also, the false dichotomy of kids who do extra academic work versus creative thinkers is ridiculous.  I don't send my kids to Kumon or academic camps in the summer, but I also don't begrudge those who do, as I don't begrudge those who have their kids in countless hours of travel soccer.  Each family makes its own decisions.[/quote]

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