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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AAP is mostly a farce.  If you want him to have a shot, YOU invent something and pretend he did, like all the other uber competitive mommies do…[/quote]

[b]I don't believe prepping is "cheating" because the child is the one taking the exam and getting the score. Period. [/b] If that child learns well enough to  achieve a great score on the exam,  he or she has the ability to do well in the AAP program.  AAP is not for geniuses, but for kids willing and able to learn and to work (a little for some, a lot for others).

Parents who prepare work samples and present them as their child's are being dishonest. That's a bridge too far and definitely cheating the process.  Most likely, these samples don't count for much anyway, especially if they are outliers compared to the rest of the AAP packet.  Perhaps most importantly, you are teaching your child the worst kind of lesson about how to get by in life. [/quote]

[b]LOL--great rationalization.[/b] But the parent prepped work examples are "a bridge too far"...

If a parent completes the work samples, the kid likely is lacking in talent and this will show pretty quickly in the classroom...[/quote]

Suit yourself.  Your child, your choice.  Most kids will get some sort of support in their studies, even though yours may not.  No tutoring, no SAT prep?   I believe it's not cheating to provide a child with resources to master topics and tasks that they will be facing.  That's how they learn and working at something is a good practice in various life stages. [/quote]

DP.  You’re cheating if you “prep” your kid for AAP selection (whether that be nnat, cogat, “helping” with work samples, “suggesting” projects, etc.) You believe it’s not cheating to give your kid an advantage over all of the thousands of other kids who don’t cheat.

It’s not cheating in your mind, because it benefits YOUR kid.  (Any unfair advantage another parent provides to your kid that you don’t provide for yours is suddenly cheating in your mind, after all).

All the other kids can go to hell, right?  Obviously their parents just don’t care as much as you, or they’re too stupid to want the best education for their own kids.  It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with other people having integrity and you having none, right?

FYI, “believing” something not to be true doesn’t make it not true.  [/quote]

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