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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am hopeful that the new principal can keep the low stress environment without abandoning rigor.[/quote]

The previous principal did an excellent job maintaining high standards while reducing the test prep cheaters, which helped with the toxicity.[/quote]

[b]Test prep is not cheating.[/b]
Studying is not cheating.
Nobody believes that it is.
Not even you.  
Only cheating is cheating.
You should stop denigrating the hard work and effort of some kids just because you want opportunity for other kids.

I think Bonitatibus was focused on mental health especially in light of the two suicides during her tenure.  I think these may be the first suicides at TJ since its inception and it must have weighed heavy on her as it would on any principal.[/quote]

The test prep has the questions bank, they teach and train your kid strategy on how to answer it, they expose to your kid what the test would similarity be like. 
If you don't like the term of 'cheating' I will call it unfair advantage.

I am agree that studying is not cheating. 
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Well, this is why I think the PSATs would be the best test to use.  The "question banks" are publicly available for free.
Test prep is available on khan academy.[/quote]

If it is free and the same, nobody will pay $$$ for prep, and the ones that usually do prep is the "wealthy, educated, and understand the game".[/quote]

You don't understand the game.
Because there is no game, not in the sleazy sense you are talking about.
Just because your kid is stupid doesn't mean the rest of the world is cheating.

Wealthy people pay more for the same thing all the time.
Toyota and a lexus are essentially the same car with different price tags.
A Kohler faucet costs 5 times as much as an off brand facuet made at the exact same factory.
People pay more for things all the time.

Back when people didn't have the internet, in person instruction was the only game in town.
It's what we did, it's what our parents did and we think it's what our kids must do.
For a lot of kids, online learning isn't as good as online learning but the smartest kids adapt well to online learning.
Princeton review and Kaplan doesn't have any secret sauce that khan academy doesn't have access to.[/quote]

Let’s say you take 300 bright kids: 
100 receive 1:1 tutoring twice a week 
100 attend in-person, small group courses once a week
100 are given the link to Khan Academy

After 6 months, which group(s) see the biggest gains in test performance? 
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Who the heck does 6 months of test prep twice a week.
It's like 12 hours max.
Beyond that point you are teaching kids math not how to do well on a math test.[/quote]

Who? All of the people who sign up for these $$$ options. Want me to list them out again?

Teaching math (& grammar, etc.) is certainly part of many of these programs.

So...who would see the biggest gains in test performance? 
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After that 12 or so hours of test related material (plus whatever time you spend on practice tests), it's all just studying.

I think it goes without saying that on average, the kids who study the most will get the best scores.

But people here talk about studying like it's cheating.

We should not be discouraging or penalizing kids that study.[/quote]

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