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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bottom line on prepping is it does raise the score.  But it does not raise the intelligence.  FCPS is trying to measure intelligence -- the county can not afford to give everyone WISCs.   What prepping has done is the county has effectively de-weighted the tests in the evaluation process.  That is why you see kids with 135 CogAT/NNAT, but lower GBRS not making the AAP cut (based on what I read here).  On the other hand, anyone with 13 (or 14) GBRS or above is admitted, even with lower scores.

The test prep makes the test less objective.  And the county has made it clear they are against it.  But, they do not want to call 2nd graders cheaters....it is the parents that are cheating.[/quote]

Emphasizing and weighing GBRS works against minorities including Asians (partially due to language, not being as assertive/active participants etc.) and the whites are the ones mostly engaged in prepping 2nd graders. In addition, white parents are more likely to visit the school/classroom to volunteer and explain their kids to teacher and other school officials and submit examples. Another scam to limit the number of minorities and increase the number of white kids just like at the top colleges. Perhaps the dilution of the AAP and the out of control expansion of the program is mostly due to these above average but not gifted kids taking up spots in AAP.   [/quote]

If there was no test prep, this would not be a problem.  There would be no debate.  When one group systematically cheats, you have three choices:  allow them to get away with it, exclude them, or modify the criteria to minimize the impact of cheating.[/quote]

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