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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If you can't even handle that little test, you are not a material for selective schools[/b].  Common Sense.

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YES!!  The ACT/SAT in 2024 are not the tests we remember.  Have you all looked at one? They're not tricky and they literally test basic grammar, reading and math.  I mean, look at a test when you have a minute.  It's all very basic stuff: [b] the proper use of colons, reading a paragraph for content[/b], doing basic geometry, etc.  They're not complex questions!![/quote]

Those are the things are public school system fails kids.  Writing instruction is atrocious.  T[b]hey also tend to accelerate kids in math too quickly and pass them along with inflated grades so there is no strong foundation.[/b]  We had our kids do a short boot camp with a tutor before their private high school entrance exams in grammar.

Senior knocked ACT out of the park after 4 years with almost no ACT test prep.  36 in verbal and reading. 35 math.  [/quote]

FCPS kids have to take standardized tests every year. As a parent with a kid that FCPS accelerated, I know exactly where they stand compared to other kids in the county and state all the way though algebra II. Do private schools provide parents with similar objective data points? [/quote]

My kid scored 600 on his SOLs.  They are multiple choice...but then when it was time for exemption tests for private HS it was eye-opening.  He had straight As too all the way through middle school and is a very bright kid. This was a large part of pulling him out of the public school system.[/quote]

Not to mention the 'teach to the test' mentality.  Our elementary school had copies of prior SOLs and would send home packets and drill kids specifically for the SOLs so the Principal could have high test scores.  This was not teaching.[/quote]

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