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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter has an eye tracking disorder and 17th percentile processing speed with a 56% IQ. Extra time and other support means she can earn decent grades instead of being deemed a failure. She wants to go to Nursing school so she won’t compete with your kid for those top college spots so why do you care so much about her accommodations? Or would OP rather she fail out of school and end up on welfare because allowing her that extra time  on the ACT is unfair to her kid?[/quote]

The Op's post was about the rampant growth in student disabilities in just the last few years.  Astonishing four-fold increase at some schools.  I'm sure some percentage of these, like your daughter, are totally legitimate.  Still one has to wonder why the sudden explosion of students with mental disabilities.[/quote]

Did you read that we're looking at up to 20% of the population having reading-related disabilities? Have you paid attention to the increase in people diagnosed with autism? Just because we're more aware of people who have disabilities, and not just labeling them stupid and waiting for them to fail out of school, doesn't mean it's all somehow fake.

The truth is, some people game the system. There are people who game welfare, there are people who game minority scholarships, and so on. Does the gaming of something by a minority of people mean we do away with it for all?[/quote]

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