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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?[/quote]

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Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?[/quote]

How is that snowplowing? [/quote]I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?[/quote]

Term coined with some relation to the college admissions bribery scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

"[i]Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there.[/i]"[/quote]

How is prepping equal to bribing? Wrong use of the word snowplow[/quote]
DP. They seem to be saying that prepping is a kind of snowplowing in that they are trying to clear any obstacles in the child’s path of success.

They did not suggest prepping is equal to bribing.

IMO there’s nothing wrong with enrichment. Why do these far left types keep trying to attack people who study more, but have no problem with an athlete getting private sessions and extra training? [/quote]

“Enrichment,” “prepping,” and “studying more” are three different things and they address three different issues.

If we’re going to be having this fight AGAIN could we at least be clear on what we are fighting about?[/quote]

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