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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Life is a test.  SAT's for college, GREs/LSAT/MCAT thereafter.  National Merit Scholar is just a test. I think the results say the kids actually know something.  That's a lot better than "free thinkers" who look up at the ceiling and read at three grade levels below.[/quote]

Most colleges evaluate on far more than a test, for many reasons, but test prep is one of them.

And national merit scholarship requires a full application. Test score alone will not get you the money.

Of course kids who are reading three grades below may require a focus on basic schools. [b]Some other kids really do require free thinking[/b].    I do not know what that says for the future of DCPS.

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People are touting that L-T beat Brent, but I don't know a single Brent family that doesn't think their kid is getting exactly what they need.  I don't think the test score are going to make parents rethink that.  "Life is a test," and even "test scores alone won't get you the money" are both quotes that depress me.  What about what will make kids while and happy?  What about making happy adults?  People want their kids to be brilliant and successful, but maybe we can't all have both.  I'll choose the happy if I have to make a choice, and I don think this is a DCPS problem  it's a US problem.  [/quote]

I agree that education is about more than career prep, etc.   I just wanted to respond to the poster who thought NMSC is only about the test - having sat with a teen who had to fill out a scholarship app, including an essay, right in the middle of college app season IIRC, that's hard to forget. [/quote]

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