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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]See fourth paragraph, first sentence:

"FCPS staff members chose to administer the custom form of the CogAT this year after it came to our attention that some students, in previous years, had prepared for the CogAT using the exact form of the CogAT being administered in FCPS." [/quote]

I guess it's ok to "prepare" for CogAT if you do not use the "exact form" of the CogAT being administered by the meat heads at FCPS.

Fairfax County will budget for a CogAT goon squad to sweep the County looking for materials (physical and digital) resembling the "exact form" of the CogAT test.  Teachers and parents throughout the County are finally pleased to learn this  squad will screen the classrooms and homes for any teaching or mentoring which could be construed as "preparing" with "the exact form" of GocAT.

FCPS is also organizing a committee to define what prepare means in the classroom and educational context and to define the educational boundaries parents and teachers must not cross as applied to the CogAT test for AAP.

Students guilty of crossing the preparation threshold for GocAT will be expelled from FCPS and not allowed to reenter the system for 2 years.  The FCPS superintendent is confident this approach will close the achievement gap between our County children.

So far, support for this new initiative from the Fairfax urban moms and dads is overwhelming.  The teachers in the County are panicking because of uncertainty of what to strip from their existing bare bone elementary curriculum to be in compliance.

The CEO of Aristotle is skipping all the way to the bank at the prospect of the new emerging black market sure to triple the cost for her services in future.[/quote]

You know, no one is required to live in Fairfax County. If you dislike their policies so much and feel such a high degree of paranoia about them, there are many other very nice places to live around here, many of which are less expensive than Fairfax. You clearly have nothing but contempt and disdain for the school system, its policies, and its employees. It's called "voting with your feet" and you can let  FCPS know how you feel about them by moving to a nearby county.

Why exactly do you care so much about a test for first and second graders? You don't have to let it affect you. If you have children that age or younger, you can move to a school system you like better. If you don't have young children, it has no effect on you, so why write these odd posts about it?
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