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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If becoming a good standardized test taker was critical to future SAT, ACT, AP etc. success wouldn't the wealthy and powerful, who commonly enroll their children in pricey independent schools, be clamoring for their children to take Common Core linked-tests like the PARCC?  The fact is, the [b]rich don't bother with the time-wasting annual standardized tests public school students are forced to take, or anything like them.[/b]  They've opted out as a class.  Their kids generally take 2-3 hour entrance examinations for middle and/or high school, and that's about it before the SAT, possibly the PSAT.

It's nonsense that 8-11 years need to start practicing for the SAT.  It's like saying, you can't become a good driver if you wait until age 16 to get behind the wheel, you need to start driving many years earlier.[/quote]

Wow, you really have NO idea what you're talking about.  Do you know just how much the private school parents pay on private tutoring and test prep both for admissions to private school in the later years (the ISEE and SSAT for middle and/or high school admissions) and then for SAT prep?
I have a kid in private and it's common for parents to pay $5K to PREP their kid to take the standardized test for middle school admissions.  I know kids who took the test 8 or 9 times and were tutored for 12 of 15 months on a weekly basis on the tips and tricks of standardized test taking.  Pretty much everyone tutors.  The city and greater DMV is filled with these test prep businesses.  Ever hear of "Prep Matters in Tenleytown???  What these places are teaching is how to take standardized tests.

Also, the K-8 schools in DC (Sheridan, Lowell, etc) all teach SSAT/ISEE prep in in middle schools to help their kids take the standardized tests for high school admissions.  It's part of their school day.  The kids do it for months.

If you think the "rich" don't standardized test prep both in and out of the classroom you are vastly incorrect.  Wow.   :roll: [/quote]

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