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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tomorrow is the Iowa test, she's dreading it (she thinks it is silly to make students test into Algebra, she suggested making it open enrollment - no, she would opt not to enroll), but will probably ace it.[/quote]

Yes, lots of kids do extremely well on the IAAT. Thankfully the more recently updated and more rigorous Math SOL tends to reduce the number of students that take Algebra in 7th grade.[/quote]

Only if they are prepped in the AAP centers.  Gen Ed does nothing to prepare students for the IAAT.  In fact, IMO, they seem to "dumb" down their curriculum so students are not successful on this test.[/quote]

"Only if they are prepped in the AAP centers"? Nope, our AAP kid (and her classmates) were not prepped for the Iowa test. You're making a sweeping generalization. Maybe your kid is at a center school where you think the AAP kids get prepped and general ed kids don't but that wasn't the case at our center. Kids and parents were told, "You can't really prep for this; it is an aptitude test, not really a test of knowledge the kid already has learned." My kid and many others did just fine on the Iowa test without any specific prep.

If you are referring to parents getting outside prep for their kids for this test, that does not translate into the centers prepping them. The centers sure aren't telling parents to go out and find prep for their kids for this, at least not where we were.[/quote]

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