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[quote=Anonymous][quote]No one is arguing againg intellectual enrichment. What people are arguing is that prepping for a specific test does not increase anything beyond the test score on that test.

The AAP tests are used based on the assumption that there was no prep. They are scaled that way. If the kids prep, then a different scaling will be required. In effect FCPS is doing that by downweighting the tests relative to the GBRS. [/quote]

If AAP means Advanced Academic Placement in Fairfax County I do not find in any of the regulations that advanced academic preparation for specific tests through a host of mecahnisms (years of private tutoring in reading, writing and mathematics, kumon [reading and math], taking SSAT, Explore, SCAT or other types of tests for fun, practise or prep, CTY, EPGY, NUMATS, DUKE-TIPS, Khan and other online courses, attending after school and weekend Jewish, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Indian schools for intense academic enrichment and preparation) are prohibited, forbidden or frowned upon.

I would suspect any of these combination of activities performed in the same manner our young athletes train will results in advance academic performance and improve scores on any specific aptitude or ability test designed for admission to AAP or Advanced Academic Placement programs in Fairfax County.

Please point me to official guidelines prohibiting any of these types of activities.  Rejoinders such as "prepping for a specific test" sound vague, nuanced and BS when engaging in many of the enumerated activities is way more than "prepping for a specific test".  The other types of activities subsume any "specific test preparation" at the elementary or middle school level.[/quote]

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