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[quote=Anonymous][quote]To me, the whole premise that first graders should be spending their summers on test prep of any kind (and that if they aren't, they're no doubt devoting all their time to TV and video games!) is really screwed up.

[b]And if one role of the tests is to flag learning difficulties or to provide an appropriate placement, why on earth would you want to prep your kid to improve his or her scores?
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Obviously (I'd hope), there are a wealth of ways kids learn and breaks from school aren't breaks from learning but opportunities for different kinds of learning. That's why it seems to me so wrong-headed to take the least inspiring/meaningful aspect of school (standardized testing) and up the dose of that over the summer.

And, geez, what a view of the world this represents: the rat race starts at age 5 or 6 and you better spend every chance you get running it or you'll be trampled. And it's just a rat race -- your goal isn't mastery or to do or create something insanely great. It's to fill in more bubbles correctly than the other kids. Sad and scary.
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If your kids have a learning disorder the intervention is indeed mental therapy --- called prepping (why delay by watching TV).  Why wait, the sooner the better the outcome!  Physiology 101.[/quote]

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