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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. I have two children. I'm of the mindset: do not impede, do not promote. That is why I won't prep.[/quote]

I used to agree with this line of reasoning.  I didn't prep my child and then didn't parent refer for AAP when my child barely missed the cutoff.  What happened is that a bunch of kids who had lower scores and lower academic achievements than my child left for the center, including every child in my child's reading group and most of the ones in the advanced math class.  For third grade, my child couldn't even access an above grade level reading group, since there weren't enough advanced readers left at the base school to form one.  So, they had to bump her down a level for reading.

If everyone else is promoting their children, whether through prepping, good parent packets, and focusing on AAP, and then nearly everyone with kids scoring 90th percentile and higher is parent referring, your 97th percentile kid will end up not having a peer group in gen ed after all of those other kids head to AAP.

I understand your viewpoint, but it's very naive.

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