The Familyman
Honest … the first thing I thought of when I saw the letters ACT, SAT.were rhyming words FAT, BAT, CAT. That’s the way my mind works. In fact, when I took the SAT my junior year of high school, I didn’t even know people studied for the thing. I just thought it was like a “survey” of how much you knew.
I went to college and then seminary and never gave it two thoughts again. Of course now, in homeschooling circles, those three letter words seem to get a lot of air-time, as if a bad score might doom you to a life of servitude and ditch digging.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, my first two children have not taken either test. The first has already completed his bachelor’s degree (through College Plus) and the second is nearing the end of a technical animation school (Animation Mentor). I’m not opposed to our children taking the SAT, MAT, ACT, BAT tests. But I’m not going to have them take them just because others take them and suggest that my children should as well.
I was talking to my college professor brother and posed the question, “So what would your state college tell a twenty-five-year-old guy who never graduated high school and never took any of those tests but says, ‘I want to go to college’? Without hesitation he answered, “We’d let him in.”
That’s what colleges want. They want someone who wants to go to college, not someone who just goes because it’s the next thing to do after high school.
All that to say, RELAX. Don’t let people scare you to the point where you frustrate your children and stop enjoying them. Not everyone needs those tests and if your child does, you’ll figure it out.
By the way, Bill Gates got a near perfect score on the SAT (1590) and Bill Cosby got a 500. Both are geniuses. So are your children.
Be real,
Todd
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