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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  "....[b]The school is using these tests as one part of a process to identify children who need a particular type of educational situation. That's all- they are just trying to match the needs of the child to the most suitable classroom situation for each child to learn the most he or she possibly can[/b]. We adults have turned this into some golden educational ring to grab, but that golden ring is not necessarily the right one for each child.[/quote]

Are you a school administrator?  Do you know the school's motive?

The problem is not the child's environment, their exposures (first and infinity) and how much prepartation leads up to their first test...it's that school's use these tests (e.g, WPSSI, cogAT), with no positive predictive value in young children to long-term academic performance, to label, track and exclude these vulnerable children (who have no control over their circumstances save for guiding and nurturing patients).  Herein lies the problem ... not with prepping or preparation for the test, evaluation, interview or play date.

As long as schools continue to inappropriately exploit healthy vulnerable children by discrimatory practices of school or classroom exclusion with "achievement" tests masquerading as 'ability" tests.  The notion that a child who does extremely well on these tests (like the SAT-- "prep" or no "prep" whatever the hell that is) and then bombs and struggles mightly is essentially bogus.  The latter issues are usually related to other factors not related to intellectual capacity (like poor management skills, ADHD or external adverse life events). [/quote]

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