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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think when you have a timed test and you are an individual with extended time, there needs to be 2 scores submitted.

1.  Score when time is called for everyone
2. Score with your extended time.

Let the admissions folks decide who they want to admit. [/quote]

Have you actually had a kid take the SAT or ACT?

How would these proctors possibly enforce your idea? You do realize that it would somehow have to be enforced right there in the testing room in that moment--right? And that it's not as simple as "just draw a line under where you were when everyone else's test time stopped"--? Students with extra time have that time in part to be able to go back over the test. So they could go back in their extra time and change answers as needed that were for questions they initially answered before the "regular" test time ended. You get that, right? The test can't magically stop and be somehow "locked" so those with extra time can only answer questions that remain blank at the time the regular testing period ends.

And yes, students who do not get any extra time also can go back and change answers if they want.

How is your child without accommodations specifically and individually hurt by another kid's having them? Unless your own kid wasn't ready for the test or blew off even attempting to prepare.

You posters bitching about extra time accommodations are either sucking on sour grapes or you're obsessed with the details of the college entrance cheating scandal now in the news.

The PP who slams parents for "sanctimoniously" saying they wish their kid didn't need accommodations is pathetic. Do you really think parents are somehow secretly gleeful that their kids have issues that mean they need accommodations?  I do not have a child with a 504 or any other accommodation needs, but I also don't complain and assume that every kid who needs them is somehow cheating and gaming the system, which apparently both of you PPs do assume. You need to spend your time focused on your own kids, not on what other kids are or aren't doing.

Or insist that your kids apply only to test-optional colleges that do not require SAT or ACT scores at all. Of course you'll find a way to complain about that somehow too.[/quote]

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