Originally Posted by Dandy
How about a 7th grader who has already taken geometry "competing" on the SAT against a 7th grader who has not? Does the first have an unfair advantage?

Or the student who participates in AMC & similar math endeavors and is therefor exposed to problem solving strategies & practice that others are not? Unfair advantage?

Or the student whose classroom teacher includes SAT mini-drills as part of the regular curriculum... unfair?

If my child doesn't benefit from any of the above, yet curls up with a "test-prep" book of some sort, how is that any different?

That's why I said that there's no clear line.

I'd argue that (for me, just my personal opinion) that the third of those is really the only one where I think things are edging into questionable territory.

Anything child-led is obviously not "prepping" in that sense, and the first two are not being done solely in service to elevation of test scores.

KWIM?


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