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[quote=Anonymous][quote]You are a troll. Please leave. You do not read the posts. You just say prep. No one is saying children should not prepare for life. But, we are talking about one or two specific tests that are trying to measure intelligence where the specific act of drill and practice with old tests (i.e., cheating, often called prep here) take away the ability to measure. The concern with FCPS is that from 2009-2012, the size of the AAP pool increased 50%. They think it was from people gaming/prepping. It is cheating.

My DD spends 12 hrs per day preparing for her future by school, homework, sports, and activities. That is prep. She spend some time being quizzed on vocabulary, which helps on the test. does not know which words will be on the test, so she studies all of them. That is prep, and it is encouraged.

CogAT is an attempt to measure something. Prepping invalidates the measurement. It is that simple.[/quote]

If prepping does not invalidate the lofty accomplishments of Peyton and Phelps it certainly doesn't invalidate the accomplishments of high performing musicians, mathematicians, artists and students.  What's in your coffee this morning?  A stimulant?  What a cheat?  [/quote]

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