The dcummie philosophy remains alive. The preparation above is key in the 21st century regardless of whether you home, digital, online, public, or private school!

Yes, we prep our children to love to read, read, read, and solve, solve, solve, lots of curious mathematical and physical science problems. Both children, one just out of college, say they are thankful we nurtured their love for education in primary school since they understand that academic accomplishment in school and on any tests was relatively straightforward and stress free in their experience compared to their peers. Our kids were certainly prepped and prepared for a lifetime of continual learning. Learn to read, read, read, and solve, solve, solve hard problems.

I never expected my children to make this confession to us at such any early stage in their lives.

Anonymous wrote:Prepping for MAP tests is for the crazies. The whole point is to show how well the schools are teaching. You are just aiding the districts to suck even more.

I mean really mommies. Calm the f down

It is crazy. But it used to be that MAP was used mostly to find struggling students so the teachers could work on them so that the school can do better on the state assessments ( used to be MSA 13 years ago). So no one cared about MAP tests. Now the county is using MAP tests for magnet/CES placements and ELC and compacted math etc. So instead of parents prepping their kids for cogat or another test they are prepping for MAP. 13 years ago, at my kids elementary school, they had a pre assessment for math placement and wasn’t based on MAP scores.

Prepping for MAP tests is for the crazies. The whole point is to show how well the schools are teaching. You are just aiding the districts to suck even more.

I mean really mommies. Calm the f down

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Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

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Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?

Term coined with some relation to the college admissions bribery scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

"Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there."

How is prepping equal to bribing? Wrong use of the word snowplow

DP. They seem to be saying that prepping is a kind of snowplowing in that they are trying to clear any obstacles in the child’s path of success.

They did not suggest prepping is equal to bribing.

IMO there’s nothing wrong with enrichment. Why do these far left types keep trying to attack people who study more, but have no problem with an athlete getting private sessions and extra training?

“Enrichment,” “prepping,” and “studying more” are three different things and they address three different issues.

If we’re going to be having this fight AGAIN could we at least be clear on what we are fighting about?

We shouldn't be turning students away from enrichment, whether that's inside the system (make it widely available & effective for gosh sakes!) or outside.

We also shouldn't be making enrichment provided by the system (e.g., magnet placement) largely influenced by factors (e.g., MAP scores) that can, themselves, be largely influenced by outside enrichment that is differentially available based on wealth (e.g., private tutoring). That just reinforces a cycle of inequity.

If the latter is solved, we wouldn't care much about those outside enrichments discussed in the former. Imagine -- celebrating learning instead of deriding it!

Anonymous wrote:What do you do if your kid bombs the MAP tests because of rushing when he could actually do much better but now won’t be placed in the lottery or get ELC or compacted math?

Kid may still get ELC and compacted math, as even without central identification, the school can place kids in -- I would request a conference to discuss this and the MAP scores not reflecting abilities.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

None

Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?

Term coined with some relation to the college admissions bribery scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

"Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there."

How is prepping equal to bribing? Wrong use of the word snowplow

DP. They seem to be saying that prepping is a kind of snowplowing in that they are trying to clear any obstacles in the child’s path of success.

They did not suggest prepping is equal to bribing.

IMO there’s nothing wrong with enrichment. Why do these far left types keep trying to attack people who study more, but have no problem with an athlete getting private sessions and extra training?

“Enrichment,” “prepping,” and “studying more” are three different things and they address three different issues.

If we’re going to be having this fight AGAIN could we at least be clear on what we are fighting about?

Our kid's MS Math teacher has them work on the MAP suggested lessons in IXL, which personalizes it according how the kid is doing in the IXL lessons assigned for homework in class. I suppose this could be called prepping?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

None

Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?

Term coined with some relation to the college admissions bribery scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

"Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there."

How is prepping equal to bribing? Wrong use of the word snowplow

DP. They seem to be saying that prepping is a kind of snowplowing in that they are trying to clear any obstacles in the child’s path of success.

They did not suggest prepping is equal to bribing.

IMO there’s nothing wrong with enrichment. Why do these far left types keep trying to attack people who study more, but have no problem with an athlete getting private sessions and extra training?

How is prepping equal to snowplowing? You all are crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

None

Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?

Term coined with some relation to the college admissions bribery scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

"Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there."

How is prepping equal to bribing? Wrong use of the word snowplow

DP. They seem to be saying that prepping is a kind of snowplowing in that they are trying to clear any obstacles in the child’s path of success.

They did not suggest prepping is equal to bribing.

IMO there’s nothing wrong with enrichment. Why do these far left types keep trying to attack people who study more, but have no problem with an athlete getting private sessions and extra training?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

None

Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?

Term coined with some relation to the college admissions bribery scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

"Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there."

How is prepping equal to bribing? Wrong use of the word snowplow

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

None

Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?

Term coined with some relation to the college admissions bribery scandal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/style/snowplow-parenting-scandal.html

"Helicopter parenting, the practice of hovering anxiously near one’s children, monitoring their every activity, is so 20th century. Some affluent mothers and fathers now are more like snowplows: machines chugging ahead, clearing any obstacles in their child’s path to success, so they don’t have to encounter failure, frustration or lost opportunities.

Taken to its criminal extreme, that means bribing SAT proctors and paying off college coaches to get children in to elite colleges — and then going to great lengths to make sure they never face the humiliation of knowing how they got there."

Anonymous wrote:I think I need to get off DCuM where everyone’s child is a superstar! There are no average normal kids in dcumland

Lake Wobegon!

I think I need to get off DCuM where everyone’s child is a superstar! There are no average normal kids in dcumland

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you prep your kids for MAP testing?

None

Who the heck does that. How much of a snowplow can you be?

How is that snowplowing?

I'm also confused by that metaphor. PP, can you come back and explain being a 'snowplow'?