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[quote=Anonymous][quote]It's funny that, in a thread about identification tests for a program for elementary and middle school students, there have been multiple posts about tests taken by high school students. FCPS has had to change the identification tests because of one kind of prepping that is inappropriate for that particular test, which has a different function than the SATs/ACTs. 
But still, post after post filled with bromides about the wonders of preparation appears, seemingly in hopes that parents will conflate SAT/ACT preparation with prepping for these first and second grade tests. As though to say, "If it is good for the SATs/ACTs, than it must be good for these tests, too!"[/quote]

There's a rather obvious connection lacking humor but reality.  In our educational universe where colleges expouse it is most important to get high marks in the most rigorous courses -- this tracking begins in elementary school all the way up to high gifted centers (HGC), magnet programs, IB programs, honors programs and AP programs in high school.  No rational parent understanding the educational bureaucracy that is the US public school system and the legacy of tracking will defer to high school to expose their children to demanding academic course work.  By then it is too late!

I glad to see many here can connect the dots even if you fail to appreciate this.  This has become more of an issue with increasing attacks on the gilded and entitled who historically made up the studentry at our top colleges and universities.  It's not the certain guarantee it was for many in NOVA and those who were never the beneficiaries watch this DCUM spectacle with amazement.  And those not used to competing now hate the process and want to change it.[/quote]

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