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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It would be interesting if they could somehow come up with a test that can't be prepped for.  My kid did not prep, but we knew a lot of kids who did prep very extensively during middle school.

Not all, but many of those kids who prepped had to continue that "prep" mindset while they were at TJ. There were kids there who had to have tutors and outside help for a number of courses every year, plus they needed summer school and extra help for that each summer. Some kids privately took summer courses then took the same course during the school year in hopes of getting a better grade.

My kid and other friends of his who did not prep did not need all this outside help and managed to graduate with high GPAs and are at great schools now, most of them majoring in engineering, physics, math, and other STEM fields.

[b]I would love to see what the school would be like if it were populated by kids who hadn't prepped and didn't need outside help to understand their course work. [/b]
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Sure, you'd also love to see everything go back to how it was in 60's, correct? I figure prep is a the pejorative term to address a group of kids who work very hard to make it sound they are somehow not natural. Asian kids and their parents work double hard because of people like you will not give them an equal opportunity if they simply were equal. They have to do 120% in order to be equal, not 100% because of prejudice like this.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Some people can never understand or conveniently ignore that Asian immigrants and their children who have no systemic advantages built in for them will have to work extra hard to simply get equal opportunity. This is the reason for all the extra courses taken, not because they cannot keep up. If they simply kept up with kids with systemic advantages then they will not be considered smart enough. Go figure! that is the irony. [/quote]

Why do you guys get so defensive?  We are not going to stop prepping.  They will keep claiming they don't while they secretly do, all the while spouting "my kid is naturally talented, so was his brother, and his cousin, and her sister, and my grandpa.."  :P .  Why even bother responding?  Nothing said on DCUM is going to change anything about prepping, NOTHING.   Remember the proverb "the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on"... Let barking dogs bark...[/quote]

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