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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Top athletes are being "prepped" as well. By top, I mean the very best in any league in any sport in our area. They have parents who played D1, D2, or D3 and spend time with their kids perfecting the sport, working on them from a very young age. Some can even afford to get trainers for additional workouts....It's the same game, people. Just the sport happens to be academia. So stop complaining. [/quote]

Prepping for an aptitude test makes the tests unreliable. When kids who are gifted are losing out on gifted education because other kids are being prepped, parents have the right to complain, just like you do. [/quote]

HA! So then prepping for a tryout makes the tryout unreliable?? When kids that are athletic are losing out on spots at top teams in the DMV because John was prepared/conditioned to excel from an early age, how many parents' complain? NONE.

Because oh John is just "naturally talented".   :roll:

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Giftedness is a type of neurodivergence. There are supposed to be gifted education classes to meet the needs of gifted kids. FCPS essentially provides advanced classes, not gifted education support— in part because of all this prepping. Bless you if you do not need to understand the difference. [/quote]

Oh, so you don't like the parallel between prepping for an academic test and prepping for sports? And therefore, you are making this about "giftedness" and what "FCPS provides." You have the choice of completely opting out of all tests if you do not like the format or offerings. But here you are, complaining on an AAP forum about the "advanced support" that kids receive because parents are "prepping" and how that's diluting the service offerings and keeping gifted kids from getting in.

My point is simple, its preparing to excel at something else. It isn't all that different. Namaste!

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Prepping for sports versus prepping for a certain aptitude test are completely different. If you prep and train and practice for a sport you become better and continue to perform at a high level when on the team. If you prep for specific tests but your hope score/what you show in the class isn’t that great or iready scores aren’t 95%+ then you likely won’t be able to keep up with the faster paces of the class and all the writing that is involved. Sports prep to make a team and AAP prep to do well on cogat aren’t comparable [/quote]

The assumption is that, as a parent, you will continue to support your child. In your point, a child with a high CoGAT score (because they were prepped) and low HOPE likely won't get into AAP. Even if they do get in somehow, that child may struggle to keep up with the fast-paced classes, as you mentioned. Consequently, the child suffers, and parents must decide whether to keep their child in AAP or move them to Gen Ed.

I "prep" my two kids who are both in AAP now. I will continue to offer support at home as I have been throughout these years. Excelling at anything requires discipline.

To generalize that all these kids are idiots who wouldn't make it in without parental prep is ignorant.[/quote]

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