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I don't think she needs help sleeping, but you on the other hand seem all bent up about it. Nobody is doing anything illegal. You're just too dumb to get it. You want to penalize and criminalize people based on your flawed perception. [/quote]

Relax.  It is a fact that the testing/prepping etc. is much more prevalent in Asian American families, to give the kiddos a leg up in a competitive world.  Especially amongst those that have emigrated to this country.   And yes, for most kids, the extra prepping does give an advantage.[/quote]

There are two easy solutions:  Either the 2nd grade teachers should add CogAT prep to the schedule between the start of school and the CogAT test date.  That way, everyone would be on a more equal footing.  Or, the Young Scholars program should incorporate some amount of test prep for 1st and 2nd graders.  Yes, some kids will still get more prep or more intensive prep, but there should be diminishing returns on that much prepping.

You can't stop people from prepping, so the best approach would be to help everyone prep, rather than completely discount the scores or play little games where they try to guess which kids prepped.   Then, the scores could be re-emphasized and the GBRS de-emphasized without giving any particular advantage to those doing outside prep.  In-pool can still be set at the top 10% locally, even if the cutoff scores end up being higher due to the prep.

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