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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One challenge with Eastern Magnet and accommodations is that there are alot of group projects and group work. Our DC was been able to advocate for extended time on individual assignments when needed, but for group projects it was much harder because other students are involved and being impacted.[/quote]

This is a great point.  Eastern is heavily reliant on group projects, at first with groups assigned and later more likely to have groups chosen. Because teachers can't tell other kids who gets extra time (obviously, and correctly), then the kids who need more time end up with frustrated group members. I can see how it would be really frustrating for a child who uses audiobooks, for example, to be on a group call with other kids flipping through texts to find the answer to a question together.

I'm not dissuading a 2e Humanities kid from trying, but just noting that the social dynamics might be a little challenging in addition to the academic ones, or they would bleed together. [/quote]

Honestly, I had a 2E child at EMS and the other students weren’t the problem, the teacher was.  In a group project, assignments can be broken up an shifted so that everyone does what they are good at. Even kids with accommodations are good at some things and bad at others, just like everyone else.  DD couldn’t read a ton on paper, but she could shift to audio or text to speech with ear buds when necessary. She was a great researcher, which could be done at her own speed.  She also was a very diligent and timely worker, so she often ended up doing other people’s work. She also is brilliant, and so would make connections or have ideas that others wouldn’t even know about.

She never experienced being left out if a group because of her accommodations.

That said, she had extensive IDRIP accommodations. [/quote] Thanks, PP. Overall do you think it was a good experience for her despite the teachers? What are IDRIP accommodations?[/quote]

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