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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you heavily prepped your kid so that they would get a strong CoGat score, does that mean they REALLY belong in AAP?  Doesn't that defeat the original purpose of AAP?[/quote]

If you heavily prepped your kid so that they would get a strong SAT score, does that mean they REALLY belong in college?

If you heavily prepped your kid so that they would get a strong math final exam score, does that mean they REALLY deserve an A?

If you heavily prepped yourself so you do well on a sales presentation, does that mean you REALLY deserve the sale? 
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Yes, you're clever.  But you're not right.

Fairfax used to use a real IQ test for admission to the GT program.  But the district is too large to do that now so they use an IQ proxy test.

A real IQ test can be prepped, to some extent. But then it's invalid.

If you want to prep your DC for the Cogat, go ahead.  Then the score's only value is for admission to AAP and is otherwise meaningless, provides no information to you or anyone else about your child.  And also, you've contributed to the educational race to nowhere and increase in pressure and stress.  [/quote]

My only issue with the prep classes and early supplementing programs is that it seems like too much pressure to be putting on young kids.

We don't send DS to tutoring or programs but he asks to go to coding club and similar activities offered after school, so we allow him to go. We have work books at home for our first grader to work on if he doesn't bring home home work (10 -15 minutes a day after snack and some play time) and over the summer (30 minutes = screen time) so how are we different? We want our child to develop solid basics and reinforce that at home by making sure he does whatever work the school sends home, reading to him, having him read to us, and answering whatever questions he comes up with (mainly math and science explanations). He has a sport he plays each season and Cub Scouts. We think he is well balanced but I am sure that other people think that we are crazy.

I will say that if he asks to stop doing something, we do. If it is a sports team he asked to be on, he has to finish the season but we don't re-enroll.

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Yeah. You make your first grader (and I’m assuming you did this last summer too) do 30 minutes of workbooks before screen time. You are crazy. It’s not abuse or anything. And I’m sure Larlo is balanced but you as parents are tiger-ish. [/quote]

DP here. I made my kids do some summer work. Studying 30 minutes a day seems reasonable.[/quote]

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