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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our school AART teacher said the lowest score she saw in the accepted students last year is 142. That seems unrealistic high for me.[/quote]

She probably mis-spoke and meant to say 132. That number would make sense for a higher-SES school.[/quote]

I doubt she mis-spoke, there are schools where a 142 would be the norm.[/quote]

Which is why the test scores have become meaningless and irrelevant.  Parents broke them.[/quote]

I am not so sure parents broke them.  My kid goes to a very high SES school (i.e. 1% of kids are free an reduced meals), and he scored right around there.  All we did was some practice problems from a $5 workbook. We did not even finish the workbook because it was clear he understood.  I really don’t know any of his friends who were going to test prep places and we do lots of car pools for activities, so I am looped into a lot of family schedules. I would not doubt many of his friends also scored that high.  They are smart kids. There are just a lot of really smart and accomplished people around here. Intelligence is due both to heredity and environment, the latter of which means so much more than an hour of test prep. Kids in this school have a lot going for them without a lot of prep.

I am glad America will have these future leaders.  Why is that a bad thing? We should celebrate their emerging capacity.[/quote]

Buying a workbook and practicing questions is prep. When the teacher went over a sample question the day before the test, my child said most of the class reported that they’ve been studying those questions at home. I am anti-prep and my kid’s score was within the past in-pool cutoff from previous years but it will not be high enough for in-pool at this prep obsessed school. It doesn’t matter bc the scores have dropped in weight for consideration since they can’t be trusted anymore. now it’s in the hands of teachers who arbitrarily assess giftedness among a class of 25+ kids. Once upon a time the scores meant something and the guidelines for AAP acceptance were more clear-cut. Now it’s just a crapshoot who gets in and who doesn’t. [/quote]

Unless you work for Your kid’s school and have seen the distribution, there is no way you would know if the score is above or below the cut-off.  That is not public knowledge at this point.  You are being hyperbolic because you misplaced your principles on your decision not to go over some workbook questions.  The fact that you are in a school with so many well-prepared kids means you chose to live in a high performing school zone and pay extra for your house. You have been playing the game already.  Commit to excellence all the way or get out of the game.[/quote]

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