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If you don't think AAP is any better than gen ed, then why do you care if people prep?  If people are dumb enough to waste time and money on something that gets them nothing and disadvantages no one, then no biggies, prep, don't prep, everyone gets the same anyway.  And why would Fairfax County want useless info about prepping when it doesn't really affect anyone anyway?  Wouldn't spending time giving useless information  be a waste of valuable time?  There must be some better use for that time.  There also must be better use of your time than telling people to report themselves for engaging in entirely benign activities that disadvantage no one.[/quote]

I did not say I did not think it is better, I said there is limited evidence that it is better.  [b]I was DD in AAP because the peer group is better[/b].  As she is now ap[b]proaching middle school, I want her to have friends that want to get the work done, and do well.

As for reporting themselves, all I am saying is if you don't think you are cheating, tell the school.  If you think your are cheating, you are damaging your children's ethical health, as you are telling them it is ok to break rules to get ahead.  Breaking the rules to get a head lead to the current economic crisis;  it lead to ENRON, it ls causing the PED scandals in sports.

I with the county would come out at specifically state the position on test prep.  They indicate that it is not likely.  They could come out with a statement:  The FxAT is designed to be taken without preparation; preparation does not allow the county to measure what they are trying to measure, and is considered cheating.

My problem with test prep is that it skews the results.  It does nothing more that improve the scores -- not the intelligence of  the child, but the score on the CogAT/FxAT.

At this point, I think the test prep problem (starting a few years ago) has gotten to the point where the score is meaningless, and the county should give up on the concept of an objective measure based on the CogAT/FxAT, as it is no longer objective.  It is becoming Garbage In Garbage out.[/quote]

For the record, I agree completely with your views re: CogAt/FxAT scores having become meaningless, etc.  However, I wish you wouldn't state that the AAP peer group is "better".  This just perpetuates the myth that GE kids are somehow completely different from their AAP counterparts, when the reality is that most of them came in just under the CogAt cutoff score.  The majority of GE kids are virtually indistinguishable from AAP kids.  Which is clear evidence that the CogAt/FxAT in-pool score needs to be much higher, to catch only the kids who [b]need [/b]to be in AAP.[/quote]

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