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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There may be a broader issue with fake accommodations within some high schools.  But that's an enormous can of worms -- kids' psych medical records -- no one wants to go there.

[b]It is not that unusual for the s-- to hit the fan, for a high school kid to suddenly bring home a bunch of Cs and fail diagnostic tests for attention. [/b] I'm not referring to the vague checklists, but there is some computerized testing for certain types of attention problems.  This happened in our house.  I'm still shocked and we're still working on treatment, as it turns out there is a medical problem underlying this.  We are not jumping to attention meds unless absolutely necessary, but the underlying medical issue is going to take time, months at least.  We have no plan to request accommodations and I think we'd still have a heap of testing to do if we wanted to pursue that (presumably the full neuropsych workup $$$).  Meanwhile, 10th grade is wrapping up -- we are out of time.

About the kids with accommodations in the scandal, I have to wonder a bit about some of them - kids with parents of a certain intellectual capacity who do not perform within a similar ballpark could have LD issues, perhaps subclinical.  This is one thought i haven't read anyplace.  Those of you with 2E kids might understand what I'm trying to say...  Not that it would remotely excuse the cheating, but it would explain the kid wanting accommodations, even though the parents may have gone about this in an entirely wrong way.[/quote]

This was our experience.  DS had always been energetic and impulsive but when we raised some concerns in ES the school psychologist said from her observations he was just immature and outgoing and he did seem to outgrow a lot of it by 5th grade (or so we thought since MS teachers didn't raise concerns).  Then started failing classes early in Freshman year and we finally did the full evaluation we probably should have done years ago.  ADHD-Combined and is now so much happier and doing well in school w/ medication.  However, he's a little unusual in having a fast processing speed w/ the ADHD so he doesn't need extra time for testing (his challenge is to slow down so he doesn't make careless errors).  "Extra time" was written into his 504 plan anyway, I guess it's just put down as a standard thing with ADHD.  But, he's never taken advantage of it and we don't plan to for SAT/ACT testing.[/quote]

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