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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's offensive and insulting to those that suggest that "prepping" is unfair and those that do and get high scores, are not deserving. Artists and musicians are applauded for the hours of hard work they put in to fine tune their abilities. Athletes train for hours on end to better themselves. High academic achievement is not just because of prepping - its because the student worked hard on it.

Every child who works on their craft should be applauded for their efforts and recognized for it. I know this will fall on deaf years and so be it.[/quote]

This has been discussed ad nauseam on other threads and I'm sure will be again, but...

There is a difference between studying (doing homework, preparing for a test in a class, working on an essay, studying for an AP exam) and prepping (preparing for a test like the CogAT, which is meant to be taken unprepped).  No one objects to the former, which is most analogous to the sports/arts.   Lots of people object to the latter.[/quote]

No one prepares for the Cogat!! Give me a break. It's not an achievement test. Many families familiarize kids with the type of questions. Many many families do this. It takes about 5 minutes with pages printed from a web site.
If some families want to pay someone hundreds of dollars to "prep" they are wasting their time and money so who cares? It doesn't help. It is not helping these kids get in to anything. 
Now some of those families also attend classes that reinforce basic math and reading skills. That helps generally but the same people I know who complain about "preppers" hire tutors or teach their own kids all this stuff. That is no different and I think that shows an involved family.

I'm not good at this so I don't send my kids to any of this but I think well of people who make this a priority. All my kids are in magnets.

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