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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand the naysayers - can’t leave early: we’ll, if you revamp the exam to that one can, why not?. Those who stay behind - hey, that is a choice they made.

Are you naysayers saying you prefer the system today that openly discriminates the poorer kids, inner city kids, disabled kids who don’t the proper time accommodation and would prefer the current system that can be abused by wealthy families?  [/quote]

This.  Give everyone the same time and let the ones done early leave.

The TRULY exceptional kids can then brag that not only did they get a perfect score, they left with XXX hours to spare. They will take pride in not staying the entire time.
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You don’t understand strivers. Plenty of kids in the TJ and Blair magnets will stay until the bitter end checking and re-checking their answers. Because their peers are and it’s an arms race. I had a kid in one of these places.

Meanwhile, kids with low processing speeds now have the same exact time as the Blair and TJ kids. Why is this helpful? [/quote]

It is unlimited time. The extended time accommodations are not to give one a leg up over those who do not get them which u r implying they are.  By removing time constraints, you would be removing the biggest abuse of the system and making it fairer to the poorer and inner city/rural kids.  Kids who now get extended time accommodations would not be harmed by this.  [/quote]

So you go home at 10pm to sleep when the janitorial staff are closing the building, you look up the answers overnight, and then you return the next day all ready to ace the test? Or the school provides internet-free room and board for, what, up to a week, for test takers?[/quote]

You are being deliberately obtuse.  Today, are there more than 24 hours extended time accommodations? Or are u one of those w accommodations for your kid and it is giving them a leg up that u don’t want to give untimed tests to every kid? [/quote]

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