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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this article pisses me off.   My DD gets extra time because of   autism and ADHD.  She would gladly give up the extra time to be neurotypical.[/quote]

I think most of the parents in that article or whose kids have diagnoses probably truly believe their kids are not neurotypical. And barring a few fringe cheaters, likely they are right. My DS has had an IEP for severe dyslexia since second grade (assessed by the public school, not a private doctor), and in all my years of navigating SN education, I have never met a parent who tried to fake a diagnosis. However, many poorer kids have no access to evaluation services and help they desperately need. IMO the issue here is not people faking, but the fact that rich kids get spotted earlier, get more help, and get more supports early on. Your DD with ADHD and autism likely has a lot of poorer peers who are just like her, but with no diagnosis or support. That's the travesty here, that there are a lot of kids who fly totally under the radar, who really need the help as much if not more.

In fact, it's the gatekeeping around SNs from wealthy SN parents that really angers me. I have seen threads on DCUM where obnoxious SN parents have insisted that only kids who were diagnosed before high school should get any accommodations, which of course really only privileges rich kids further because at poorer schools, kids fall through the cracks until high school and that's where  a lot of them get caught. Or SN parents who object to untimed tests for all, when that would really help bright kids with undiagnosed processing, ADHD, or dyslexia issues and would not hurt anyone else (frankly any SN parent who objects to untimed tests for all has shown their true colors, IMO).

What I have seen around these threads is that everyone is convinced their child's disability is legitimate but other people are faking it or gaming the system. That's not a productive approach. But it's clear that wealthy kids with diagnosed SNs get support that poorer kids who would likely qualify don't, and that is wrong. Personally I think that the way to short-term fix this is to either get rid of the SAT completely or allow untimed for anyone, but long-term, there's a systematic structural issue about equal access to education that needs to be fixed.[/quote]

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