Reply to WSJ article on more students especially the affluent get extra time on SAT

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "WSJ article on more students especially the affluent get extra time on SAT"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An additional issue in Big Law or other work environments where time is billed by the hour is this. If Suzy Speedy and Lennie LD look exactly the same on their transcripts, they will probably be hired at similar salaries and similar hourly billing rates. But if Lennie needs to work 1.5 times longer to do the project, the clients lucky enough to have Lennie assigned to their projects will end up paying 50% more for his work product than if Suzy had done it. Not fair to the client, not fair to the firm. [/quote]

Unless Lenny is actually smarter and more creative.  People who require supports and accommodations can be extremely bright and intellectual and/or have amazing memories, meaning they save a great deal of time looking up cases.  They might save more time with their gifts and skills than they lose on their challenges. Extended time helps level the playing field on certain types of tests that are helpful but not extremely accurate identifiers of future success in college.  FYI my kid is top of his social science and humanities classes in content knowledge.  You gotta ask yourself what's really important for success in life...and the answer is, it depends because there are so many ways to be successful--speed is important for some things, problem-solving for others, mastery and recall of content for others, or a combo.  Companies are increasingly looking to increase neurodiversity because the skills that employees with challenges bring are useful to the company's success.  There is plenty of literature on this in the media.[/quote]

David Bois has dyslexia.  I would say his clients probably don't mind . . . .[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics