Anonymous
Post 02/06/2013 09:51     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
+100 for kumon
Anonymous
Post 02/06/2013 09:43     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
Kumon is kreat for math facts and sunday school is great for religious facts. To each their own despite the envy and jealousy displayed here by many. Posters here can't stand that your kids are doing Kumon. Many think it is cheating and unfair since your kids will blew theirs out of the academic water for years to come. C'est la vie.


+1
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 20:09     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
Anonymous wrote:
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You also discount the effect of child burnout. Many students who are pushed by their parents at a young age develop depression, anxiety, and stress. I cannot imagine that a child that is prepped and driven by their parents wouldn't feel pressure to perform. I don't want that type of life for my 8 year old.


All of those burned out students hanging around outside the Kumon center in Vienna. We won't even go to the yogurt or cupcake stores next door anymore. It is just too scary and sad to see all of those traumatized kids with their thousand yard stares and with their tiger mom mothers trailing behind them waving Kumon test packets at them while babbling in strange foreign languages. A lot of the kids will probably end up in prison or worse after they grow up. Surely they wont be going to any good schools or even getting any jobs in STEM fields. If only their parents would stop the cheating and scamming...


"...while babbling in strange foreign languages"...wow. WTH?


Its parody. WTF with you?



You say parody; I say stereotyping and disparaging other cultures with that comment. The brighter of the 2 of us is right.


What's your IQ Einstein?


Who mentions their IQ when talking to another adult who is not the psychologist to administer the IQ test? Oh wait, you do.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 20:05     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
You also discount the effect of child burnout. Many students who are pushed by their parents at a young age develop depression, anxiety, and stress. I cannot imagine that a child that is prepped and driven by their parents wouldn't feel pressure to perform. I don't want that type of life for my 8 year old.


All of those burned out students hanging around outside the Kumon center in Vienna. We won't even go to the yogurt or cupcake stores next door anymore. It is just too scary and sad to see all of those traumatized kids with their thousand yard stares and with their tiger mom mothers trailing behind them waving Kumon test packets at them while babbling in strange foreign languages. A lot of the kids will probably end up in prison or worse after they grow up. Surely they wont be going to any good schools or even getting any jobs in STEM fields. If only their parents would stop the cheating and scamming...


"...while babbling in strange foreign languages"...wow. WTH?


Its parody. WTF with you?


You say parody; I say stereotyping and disparaging other cultures with that comment. The brighter of the 2 of us is right.


What's your IQ Einstein?
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 19:55     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
Kumon is kreat for math facts and sunday school is great for religious facts. To each their own despite the envy and jealousy displayed here by many. Posters here can't stand that your kids are doing Kumon. Many think it is cheating and unfair since your kids will blew theirs out of the academic water for years to come. C'est la vie.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 19:46     Subject: If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
We're caucasian, US born and my kids go to Kumon. Kumon is not CogAT or NNAT prep. It's drilling math facts, which is something that, sadly, FCPS doesn't do any more. I was told they don't teach math facts because the children "pick it up organically." My geniuses apparently missed out on that. My kids are at Kumon to make sure they get their math facts down. Could I do it at home? Yes, but I work FT and this forces us to do it. It has nothing to do with AAP. One of my kids was in AAP before they started Kumon and the other is not really right for AAP.

Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 19:42     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
You also discount the effect of child burnout. Many students who are pushed by their parents at a young age develop depression, anxiety, and stress. I cannot imagine that a child that is prepped and driven by their parents wouldn't feel pressure to perform. I don't want that type of life for my 8 year old.


All of those burned out students hanging around outside the Kumon center in Vienna. We won't even go to the yogurt or cupcake stores next door anymore. It is just too scary and sad to see all of those traumatized kids with their thousand yard stares and with their tiger mom mothers trailing behind them waving Kumon test packets at them while babbling in strange foreign languages. A lot of the kids will probably end up in prison or worse after they grow up. Surely they wont be going to any good schools or even getting any jobs in STEM fields. If only their parents would stop the cheating and scamming...


"...while babbling in strange foreign languages"...wow. WTH?


Its parody. WTF with you?


You say parody; I say stereotyping and disparaging other cultures with that comment. The brighter of the 2 of us is right.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 15:04     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
Anonymous wrote:

Why do posters like you always assume that the other posters kids are not in AAP? Really, I'd like to know...

Ummm, My kid is in AAP and has been for 3 years now and she loves it.


Seems to me you assume more than me about others.


Nope. Not, really. I have gotten that "Sorry that your kids did not get into AAP" as a reply at least three time now on different threads in this forum whenever I post anything that (parody or otherwise) that might suggest the possiblity that parents who prep really are not child torturing spawn of the devil.

You never did answer my question. Really. I am curious. Why did you assume my kids are not in AAP and then feel the need to apologize for that fact?


You sound full of anger and judging/assuming about others.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 14:28     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?

Why do posters like you always assume that the other posters kids are not in AAP? Really, I'd like to know...

Ummm, My kid is in AAP and has been for 3 years now and she loves it.


Seems to me you assume more than me about others.


Nope. Not, really. I have gotten that "Sorry that your kids did not get into AAP" as a reply at least three time now on different threads in this forum whenever I post anything that (parody or otherwise) that might suggest the possiblity that parents who prep really are not child torturing spawn of the devil.

You never did answer my question. Really. I am curious. Why did you assume my kids are not in AAP and then feel the need to apologize for that fact?
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 13:06     Subject: If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
Hi again, OP here. This thread got really weird and off base. Not bitter or cynical as one PP called out - just wondering with all the talk about prep, if it worked for most who got high scores. Most posters who reported scores on this thread - high scores seemed to report no prep and 70s scores did prep....not a scientific study, but interesting - if its true. Who knows on DCUM.
Anonymous
Post 02/05/2013 12:29     Subject: Re:If DC got 95% or higher, did you prep?
I don't spend money on Kumon.
There's the math club thing for nominal fee at school.
I send my kids once a week an hour there.
They participate in the math contests.
I speak Asian foreign language.