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[quote=Anonymous][quote]If she has a disability then a 504 is appropriate not an out. I don't think its fair to want to take AP away from kid's who are willing to meet the challenge just because your child doesn't want a challenge but still wants to be with the kid's who do.[/quote]

I (Not OP, the follow-on poster) don't want to take AP away. With this push to get on the "best schools" rankings it just seems like any kid halfway motivated is put in AP classes. Even if it's AP english and they are planning to be an engineer who plays soccer and violin, or whatever and have very little interest in English. Honors are now General Ed and General Ed is special ed. Why can't AP be a little more selective? and then honors for otherwise college bound kids, general ed and IEP/504 kids slotted in where it's appropriate? And have most kids take AP in the areas of strongest interest. My child surely qualifies for a 504, but I don't want to do other AP students a disservice by having a kid not really quite there academically, even if in classroom discussions you wouldn't notice a difference. The difference in having a class where not quite so much volume of written output is expected rather than always asking to be the exception and hoping for a co-operative teacher. (reading the descriptions the writing expectation seems to be a big differentiation.)

I know, silly. When every other parent wants their child to go to an Ivy it's 100% AP all the way. It's not going to change. We'll muddle through somehow. It just seems to be a issue for more kids apart from our special problem. AP has been promoted as a way to close the racial achievement gap, so they admit any interested student. I just think that it's had some unintended side effects.

[quote]What is your daughter's writing issue? Is it a physical issue? Have you consulted an OT? [/quote]

It seems more, from her testing, to be a language learning disability. After a few years of concentrated work, she's mostly remediated her reading issue, but the writing/spelling issues have lingered. She's perfectionist and anxious, so when she can't be positive she'll spelling it correctly, the output slows way way down. She also gets frustrated when her physical writing can't keep pace with her train of thought, might have some sort of memory/executive function element to that. We hope in the long term a laptop will help, but right now when it's mostly transcription and taking dictation, it's just as frustrating. 
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