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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One problem with Fairfax County not explicitly saying that prepping is considered cheating but instead saying there are no materials for prepping for the test is that there is a huge segment of fcps parents who've never been on this forum and so know nothing about why prepping is considered cheating.  They are used to studying for tests being viewed as allowed.  If they do a search and find the test materials, they could reasonably think that the fcps site just is outdated since it just says no materials are available.  Are you going to punish those kids?  FCPS has no standing to complain about prepping until it explicitly says prepping is unethical/cheating and putting that on it's website and also sending home materials to that effect starting in kindergarten.  If anyone in the fcps administration is reading this thread, would you mind explaining the rationale for not doing this?[/quote]

I agree that some people prepping their kids are just oblivious and doing what they think is right. Our neighbor, who I hardly know, casually told me at the bus stop that her husband was prepping their DC for the Naglieri using a sample booklet that he ordered. We talk only at the bus stop and usually about the weather. We talked about how it was getting colder then about how the school year was going, and she mentioned the prepping. She wasn't confiding any secret to me but just chatting innocently about how their DC was doing in first grade. I didn't have the heart to bring up that what their family was doing could be considered cheating, and after all there is no official statement to this effect that I could point to. [/quote]

There is nothing from FCPS that says don't prepare.  Just some info saying you don't need to, just like they say you don't need homework in the first couple years of school.  If you want to supplement, got for it.....

Well, you really [b]don't[/b] need homework in the first couple of years of school.  Or at least you didn't before everyone around here went crazy.  I lived in China for several years and saw the intense prepping approach in action.  I'm not maligning the Chinese because I understand the culture and where the need to do well academically comes from , so save the racist rants.  I'm just saying what I observed, and what I observed was a bunch of kids who worked themselves to death through grade school and high school to get into certain colleges and then did..... nothing.  They were burnt out.  Done. At a time when young minds should be opening up to explore the intellectual universe, they were marking time till they got out.  So sad to see people unable to enjoy the prize because of what it took to get there.

Is that really what we want here?  has it really become so competitive that we think the only way our kids will have a happy life is if we drill them to death in academics and make childhood all about the advantages of prepping?

btw, I have three kids -- one in AAP, others GE, never prepped for CogAT, didn't enforce homework until 3rd or 4th grade.  All three are doing great in school.  Oldest a National Merit Scholar.

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