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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]it's not about services. who cares if kids get services who need them? 
it's about a complete redefinition of what and is not 'typical' and what must be 'accommodated'.
[b]If half your class needs to be accommodated then maybe your school is wrong[/b]. [/quote]

I kind of agree with you but this is really only true if half the class needs the SAME accommodation. If some need extra time and others need breaks and others need seating close to the teacher and others need seating somewhere else then these diagnoses/evals are actually helping folks to identify kids' individual needs and the real problem is [b]some kids get their needs identified much later than others due to lack of access to services.[/b][/quote]

This is key. Instead of spending millions on standardized testing in elementary schools, we should be giving neuropsych evaluations to all kids in public schools. Early intervention will allow those kids to perform better when they hit middle school. Start the academic standardized testing after you identify and support learning differences for all.[/quote]

I don’t know. It just makes the kid look more functional than they are. No one will accommodate them in the work force. And everyone will want to hire the kid who didn’t need accommodations. Having testing without accommodations probably resulted in more accurate results. 
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Mixed feelings about this.

My kid has testing accomodations. He definitely qualified for his IEP (autism with disruptive behavior) but initially I believed he has no cognitive issues per that mean he needs more time. I also felt like the skill of timed test taking was something he should learn. And he’s a pretty competitive kid, so I thought that a timed test might actually focus him better than an untimed test.

He’s now in 6th grade and I’ve kind of given up on resisting the test accomodations. In part that IS because such a big percentage of kids have them any it’s hard to see why he shouldn’t. It’s also because I realized that in the absence of homework and textbooks to study from at home, a lot ends up riding on tests at school, and I wasn’t willing to let him tank his grade given other struggles. [/quote]

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