Haha, I see that analogy all the time. Not the same thing at all as showing kids test questions ahead of time, but it is interesting that there are some who think it is.

SHOWING KIDS TEST QUESTIONS ahead of time? = impossible
It would be called cheating. The analogy to that would be a fielder knowing exactly where the ball was going to arrive.

There is no way to show kids actual test questions.
The testing company does not even release old test problems....

No wonder you are cynical if you were confused about that!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question.

If someone has a child that shows potential for baseball, and this kid is going to try out for the travel team, would a parent be be commended or criticized for doing batting practice with them in the backyard? Should the parent feel public pressure to NOT practice with their child?

Maybe coaches should ask each child before the tryout - "Have your parents practiced this with you?" and take note of that........

Maybe there should be a sports thread called prepping/scamming baseball tryouts.........

Excellent point!

Double Excellent! My kids play sports, and I swear some of those parents are crazy crazy crazy. Way crazier than any parent I know about AAP or TJ prep. Yet there's never any criticism about that.

Uh...didn't YOU just criticize it?

Haha, I see that analogy all the time. Not the same thing at all as showing kids test questions ahead of time, but it is interesting that there are some who think it is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question.

If someone has a child that shows potential for baseball, and this kid is going to try out for the travel team, would a parent be be commended or criticized for doing batting practice with them in the backyard? Should the parent feel public pressure to NOT practice with their child?

Maybe coaches should ask each child before the tryout - "Have your parents practiced this with you?" and take note of that........

Maybe there should be a sports thread called prepping/scamming baseball tryouts.........

Excellent point!

Double Excellent! My kids play sports, and I swear some of those parents are crazy crazy crazy. Way crazier than any parent I know about AAP or TJ prep. Yet there's never any criticism about that.

Uh...didn't YOU just criticize it?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a question.

If someone has a child that shows potential for baseball, and this kid is going to try out for the travel team, would a parent be be commended or criticized for doing batting practice with them in the backyard? Should the parent feel public pressure to NOT practice with their child?

Maybe coaches should ask each child before the tryout - "Have your parents practiced this with you?" and take note of that........

Maybe there should be a sports thread called prepping/scamming baseball tryouts.........

Excellent point!

Double Excellent! My kids play sports, and I swear some of those parents are crazy crazy crazy. Way crazier than any parent I know about AAP or TJ prep. Yet there's never any criticism about that.

Anonymous wrote:I have a question.

If someone has a child that shows potential for baseball, and this kid is going to try out for the travel team, would a parent be be commended or criticized for doing batting practice with them in the backyard? Should the parent feel public pressure to NOT practice with their child?

Maybe coaches should ask each child before the tryout - "Have your parents practiced this with you?" and take note of that........

Maybe there should be a sports thread called prepping/scamming baseball tryouts.........

Excellent point!

I have a question.

If someone has a child that shows potential for baseball, and this kid is going to try out for the travel team, would a parent be be commended or criticized for doing batting practice with them in the backyard? Should the parent feel public pressure to NOT practice with their child?

Maybe coaches should ask each child before the tryout - "Have your parents practiced this with you?" and take note of that........

Maybe there should be a sports thread called prepping/scamming baseball tryouts.........

Since I don't have children; there is no action and thus no assumptions in this regard. But, to assume this activity is an anomaly or outlier in NOVA is near certain death by suffocation unless you exhume your head buried in the Potomac banks.

People do tend to assume that other people's thoughts and actions are the same as their own.

There are about 30 topics on the NOVA public school board. Interestingly, 99 percent of these topics/threads relate to AAP and various admission test scores. Who wants to bet that 99 percent of NOVA prep their children in some form or fashion for these tests and 99 percent of those who deny this are liars- including you?

Anonymous wrote:I'm so sorry for the parents with borderline kids who either made it thru heavy prepping or didn't make it and complaining LOL

I recognize you for other posts. You are truly strange and need help. LOL

Why the sorrow? Both camps got exactly what they deserved.

I'm so sorry for the parents with borderline kids who either made it thru heavy prepping or didn't make it and complaining LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus Chris, why targeting Chinese so much? If you look around, most of the SAT or ACT prep academies are operated by the main stream (Princeton, Kaplan, College Board) or S. Koreans. My daughter took the SAT prep course in a Korean academy. I have looked for Chinese ones but could only find one called Dr. Li and that is in College Park.

Not the OP, but I believe the PP was in response to an exchange about verbal GRE scores in graduate schools appearing somehow inflated due to heavy prepping, particularly in students from China.

Are you saying Chineese and Koreans have no morals or ethics?

A Cathartic Wake

"In a fit of paroxysmal emotional purging the hidden plain truth emerges. The entitled culture feels vulnerable and threatened by the new culture defined by preparation and hard work.

Fact: Time to kill this thread. Proof: The last 20 or so posts.