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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The brazen behavior is around the athletic recruitment,[b] but the outrage seems to be focused on "extra time" accommodations, [/b]causing the discussion to veer into whether it's "fair" for kids with diagnosed learning disabilities to receive extra time. (not the fakers in the scandal, but real learning disabilities).

I'm not trying to start an umpteenth thread on the same topic, but I'm curious if we're ignoring it, worried, angry, agree/disagree? Maybe we're just too busy parenting to worry about what other people think.

My DC qualifies for extra time, but we don't take it (in his case, it would be a substantial benefit in the language portions of standardized tests due to a language impairment). [/quote]

The outrage seems to be focused on not just the extra time but the outright cheating - either correcting the wrong answers and/or having another person take the test...   and paying big bucks to do it.

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OP here--yes, of course it's the outright cheating, but a lot of the threads and articles that I've read switched focus to the extra time, period- even when there is no cheating. Here is an article that articulates it better than I do:

https://khn.org/news/students-with-disabilities-call-college-admissions-cheating-big-slap-in-the-face/

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