At my summer pool you would believe the families that prep their kids for standardized time trials for the edge and a first place ribbon. The same parents squawk until hoarse that children shouldn't prep for the first place MAP ribbon.

If you are not a legacy or trust fund baby it's vital in this country to learn and play hard while having fun. A life of slow, steady prep and preparation is more likely than not to compound longstanding social and professional success and happiness. Best ignore hypocritical fools.

Anonymous wrote:Prepping for standardized swim time trials is OK. But, flunking your standardized test is OK.

Some are so dumb they believe this nonsense.

Wait what?

Many children in Montgomery County are taught by teachers and a system that does not reflect or respect different cultural backgrounds. The playing field is therefore neither fair nor equal in regards school discipline or rewards. No parent that has struggled to make it in this society understands this. They had to be 10 times better to get the nod (academically, intellectually, and physically). The silent majority can't stand it because they lack the discipline, preserverance, and resilience from a system that has rewarded lackluster performance for generations based on pedigree and wealth. Trump is a beneficiary of this legacy system.

Anonymous wrote:Watching YouTube videos like Math Antics. I asked my kid how they scored three grade levels above grade level in math and that was their answer.

Your kids seek out Math Antics?

Watching YouTube videos like Math Antics. I asked my kid how they scored three grade levels above grade level in math and that was their answer.

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?

You call the school and remind them that the teacher can clearly see that your child is ready for ELC and CM, because the child showed top performance all year.

You don't worry about the lottery, because the lottery cutoffs are so low that you don't want to push your kid into the magnet even if they theorecally could cross the threshold, especially because they aren't able to take their work seriously and they rush through it carelessly.

Anonymous wrote:I prepped for my older two using paid online programs that helped to refine their ELA reading comprehension and push forward their math skills. It was basically "one easy trick" sort of stuff, like teaching them basic formulas that are about memorization (Pythagorean theorem, for example) but knowing that they would not be able to explain the "why" behind those formulas.

For my younger two, though, who are coming up after the "85 percent rule," I don't bother. Their scores are high enough to get them in pool and then it is up to luck. It's actually super freeing not to worry about getting a 97th percentile kid up to 99th.

I don't get it. You want your kid in the magnet lottery. That makes sense. You think the magnet is valuable.
But if they don't get into the lottery, you don't care, and don't want to provide what they are missing from magnet? That doest make sense.

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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.

I prep my kids so that the county can redirect limited resources to helping kids who can't thrive under their own faimily resources.
I want those kids' teachers to get additional support.

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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?

Get the to Politics forum, troll.

Anonymous wrote:The prep wars started years ago. If you don't prep, your child already lost.

I guess he did. Congrats to you and your child for ‘winning’ the ‘race’.

The prep wars started years ago. If you don't prep, your child already lost.

If they stopped making decisions that result in differential publicly provided academic opportunities based on metrics prone to greater preppability, prepping in those areas would fade back to some relatively meaningless level, representing, for the most part, only those over-eager to hit a score for its own sake.

Until then...

Yeah, the Potomac moms would all be indicted and sitting in jail?

“Please don't be a mom that makes their kids study and prep for standardized tests”

I guess the converse: it’s ok to prep for a non-standardized test?

Before you know it moms with mush between their ears will define the difference between “standardized”
vs “non-standardized” test for purposes of assigning criminal intent or impeachment.