Reply to Prepping/Scamming the Cogat

Forum Index » Advanced Academic Programs (AAP)

Reply to "Prepping/Scamming the Cogat"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]I have "test prepped" my children for most of their exams without buying anything commercial.  My children claim I am a better teacher than any one they have had in their educational lives.  They aced GoCAT and aced SAT exams in middle school.  They are also on top of their school work.  This is precisely what any loving educated and engaged parent does for their young.  Feeds, nurtures, protects and teaches them the ropes so kids can thrive in the world.

No one -- including lady Carol of AAP, FCPS or Judge in the US -- can prevent a parent from educating their children even when a learned parent can easily predict the objectives, aims, scope of any test in the K through 12 world!  One doesn't not need to buy "commercial materials" to prepare or "test prep" school aged kids.  Where do you draw the line between "test prep" and day to day engagement that resembles the subject/topic matter and scope of tests in SAT, PSAT, GoCAT, geo Bee, spelling Bee, math olympiad,  science, literature and Jeopardy!  You can't draw that line in many settings.  No one is talking about "commercial" test prep... if any fool here can even define this.  (CTY, EPGY, Thinkwell, AoPS, BrainPop, Khan Academy, Cousersa and on and on).  Are these commercial entitities?  Should one ban kids from the internet and threat educational websites like sex and porn?

Only a fool thinks "test prep" is limited to commercial materials.  Non commercial "test prep" can be an equal or more effective method.

You are not going to censor school teachers and learned savvy parents for innate talent of teaching and parenting?  Even when the child comes home and tells you that 90% of what was on the exam or test she had been exposed to at home over the last 5 years.

Common sense must prevail here.  The issue is not "test prep" (commercial or noncommercial, business or non business, engaged vs non engaged parents).  The issue lies with idiotic bureaucrats and how they use the idiotic tests and evaluate our kids.

[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics