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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Doesn’t matter what you think. There’s no law against prepping.

My oldest scored perfect on the NNAT. I didn’t even know what it was. [b]School accused me of prepping.[/b] I was unaware that you could - she was my oldest. She also scored perfect/nearly perfect on the SOLs.

I made sure to prep my younger ones once I knew about prepping. AAP has been wonderful for all of them.[/quote]

That's interesting! How did the school accuse you of prepping and what did they/you do about it? I see in some other threads on this forum that the teachers ask the kids if they prepped. I think that's rather sneaky (and unethical) that teachers would use the vulnerability and innocence of kids to glean such information rather than asking adults. It is also an unreliable way make any judgments or decisions on prepping, based on information gathered by putting second graders on the spot.

As a PP pointed out, if it is about Advanced ACADEMICS, give a test on academics (advanced math/language arts etc.) and go from there. It is unconvincing that scores on NNAT and CogAT correlate to high performance in academics in later years. [/quote]

Why would parents who prep share that info with teachers, even if asked? Asking the kids is the only way to get an honest answer.

BTW, if FCPS "tacitly accept" prepping, as an earlier poster argued, then why are teachers asking.[/quote]

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