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[quote=Anonymous]This doesn't make sense to me. Being allowed to take a test in another location is one issue. Being given extra time is another issue. There's NO reason he should have to leave the main testing area if he gets extra time. And there's NO reason he should have to STAY in the separate location if he's finished a test. And there's NO reason they should refuse him extra time on the SAT just because he doesn't use extra time on a chapter test or something. If I were you I would look into all these things.

If it helps, OP, I have severe learning disabilities and had an IEP as a kid (504 didn't exist then) which allowed me a separate testing location and extra time. I needed NEITHER. Having to go to "the retard room" (resource room) was social suicide as someone else said. And because the worst-behaved kids were there, it was actually more distracting and louder than staying in the regular classroom. Also, I NEVER needed extra time at all. By the time a test came, I either knew the answers or didn't - I had zero need for extra time.

My parents talked me into taking the SAT in the "retard room." We had to all sit with an extra desk between us and each person. Sam, Empty, Lauren, Empty, Chris, Empty, etc.

The kid sitting behind me spent the entire SAT using his feet to pull the chair-desk-combo between he and I, back towards him before ramming it into the back of my chair. Repeatedly. I got whiplash. I was not allowed to move to a different seat. He was not forced to move or stop. As always, I did not need extra time. It would have been a calmer environment to take the SAT in the gym with everyone else. [/quote]

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