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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we will very soon learn that the only thing needed for education is a good teacher, chalk and a black board. Our education system isn't failing because it's not well funded enough. It's failing because these kids have way too many corporate backed distractions. [/quote]

No, it's failing because 50% of a class has an ADHD or autism diagnosis with accommodations that require many resources and the other 50% are ESOL kids with parents at home who don't care if their kids learn English as long as they are in school and not needing daycare for 8 hours a day.

If I still had kids at home, there's no way I'd allow them in public school. The minority of kids, those kids without accommodations, are severely disadvantaged and cannot fairly compete with the kids with accommodations, like extra test time. [/quote]

Exactly. They should be graded separately because they have accommodations. The existence of a 540 or IEP is an acknowledgement that they are not the same as other students, and there's been no study to decide how much extra time or which tool is considered "fair."[/quote]

That’s just not true. Most kids getting IEPs and 504s have had extensive testing done by Doctors, both at the District’s expense and often the parent’s. The Doctors/PhDs are well aware of recent studies and give pages of explanation, reasoning, and testing in thick documents to the IEP/504 school committees. Many times these professionals will come to the IEP/504 meetings.

My child has a disability and graduated from TJHSST. They were admitted under the old system using the EXACT same requirements as others admitted, and they did very well.  
It’s incredibly entitled that you think disabled students are somehow not as intelligent and must be “getting” extra as to why your kid isn’t doing as well. Be glad your kid doesn’t have a disability. If anything, disabled students face a whole host discrimination from teachers and administrators that some how feel entitled to put up road blocks and/or be more difficult to the disabled student to “teach them a lesson” as they don’t feel the student looks “disabled” enough to them. If a parent or student won’t go into a deep personal medical explanation with Ms. Nosy, Ms. Nosy feels it’s ok to be an utter A$$ to the student.

A student with a disability might need extra time on a test because they can’t write as fast due to a serious hand shaking problem, hearing difficulty, vision problem, or a whole host of legitimate reasons. Besides, in many upper level stem classes, either you can answer the question or you can’t….extra time won’t help other than with the physical act of reading & writing the answer down.

However, I do recognize there are parents that magically discover ADHD in their child’s junior year of High school just to get extra time on the SAT so kiddo can go to Harvard. But then again, there are parents that pay $1Million for 4 years of “guidance” for college acceptances. There was whole host of parents paying $15K+ for their kid to get SATs taken for them in the admission scandal.
It seems the same parents screaming “unfair” for disabled students getting accommodations are the same parents that have no problem cheating to get their own kid into T-10 universities…..[/quote]

The  IEP programs are getting abused by UMC parents namely doctors who get letters written for their kid who needs 90 minute accommodations  to take a 20 question test. Many people with accommodations don’t really need it[/quote]

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