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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the dyslexic mother of a dyslexic child, it is awful to read what you all think of kids with accommodations. My kid is so ashamed already by his accommodations that he often refuses to use them. He has an IQ of 130 but struggles to pass classes. When you have a kid like mine it becomes blindingly obvious that our educational system isn’t serving our kids well - the typical kids or mine. Why should all school work reward working memory and processing speed and ignore problem solving? It’s wacky. Just like I did, my kid is going to struggle to get through school, but will flourish in a career. And for the person wondering how those stupid dyslexics could have made it into Pomona...a characteristic of dyslexia is high intelligence and problem solving, but a different brain wiring that also makes reading difficult to learn and usually comes with working memory deficits. Many of us dyslexics make it to prestigious colleges by working twice as hard as everyone else. I did.[/quote]

Then how do you explain the extraordinary increase at these competitive colleges such that 25% of students are labeled disabled?[/quote]

Why don’t you call them up and demand answers since it is apparently your personal business? [/quote]

You have dodged the question. Do you really think that a school that has a 15% acceptance rate truly has 25% disabled students, when any given local high school will have 10% or less? Yes, we all agree that students with dyslexia should get to go to college. But there's a difference between a "level playing field" and one quarter of your entire student body getting to cheat on exams because a doctor somewhere agreed with their wealthy parents that they needed extra time and medication. I don't even think the parents know they're cheating. They just think there is no way Junior is really a B student or really only can get a 1200 on his SATs, so they seek out a solution to their problem. And meanwhile there are so many kids out there who are so talented who get shut out by these colleges but don't have parents who know how to cheat.[/quote]

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