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[quote=Anonymous]Now that we are done (at least for the time being) with the uncomfortable twisting, squirming and waffling and are getting closer to the truth and a straight forward and straight up answer to the original question posed:

The College Board, like MCPS leadership, is made up of the old generation elite (old guard) and the education estabilshment that are watching a new generation of high academic performers that are not their own children but are increasingly children of more recent immigrants.  Imagine the College Board sanctioning intensive prep for the SAT reasoning and aptitude test (heresy)?

Imagine yet the College Board rewarding the elite SAT test "prep" payers (old guard) with a "special SAT exam session that will count" in the summer? Note, others prepping in the summer can't take this test (they are not granted this pathway) until the fall with course work, college applications and extracurriculars in the mix.  Furthermore, the College Board was prepared to change or alter the actual summer test date to the traditional fall date for the official records so red flags are not raised!

Guess what, thrifty recent immigrant children do not shell out five grand ($5,000) for a 3-week intensive summer prep camp capped off with the opportunity to take the SAT immediately afterward, fully tapered, at peak prep mode. The old establishment guard does this.

In a "TIA" moment (blind spot), the College Board gives this select group an advantage (just as the College Board has traditionally done with its testing accommodations). Why? For precisely the same reason the old guard here in MCPS wants to block the advancement of these new high flying academic performers by eliminating pathways to give their own children an advantage and "close" the gap that really hurts them. This strategy is "quietly" permeating all phases of education in America. The children of the educational leadership and old guard are no longer the high and highest academic performers and hence it's time to change policy and the rules (while they are still in charge).

The College Board blundered and they were called out. To their credit, the College Board very quickly cancelled their summer testing plans.  MCPS, too, has blundered by eliminating the math advancement pathways and preventing able, capable and willing students from moving on in mathematics (the language of our technology age). MCPS  is being called out.

Who benefits and stands to gain the most from this attempted policy changes?

Who does this policy affect the most in our County?  Is it the highest academic performers in our County?  Who are they?

Who is the worse off because of these attempted policy changes?

http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/...h-on-new-sat-summer_12424.aspx 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/p...012/06/06/gJQAeLZpIV_blog.html 
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-...d-sat-20120605,0,5866106.story 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/31/sat-summer_n_1560537.html 
http://www.usnewsuniversitydirectory.com/articles/...h-on-new-sat-summer_12424.aspx [/quote]

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