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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one should get extra time. It is just a scam for the wealthy to push their kids above the others.

In real life you don't get extra time.[/quote]

Really? My kid with ADHD got 1030 on the PSAT with a 504. Is this a score of a scam??[/quote]

Our friend’s son got a 1550 with extra time and the kid was thrilled, as was the mom. She directly said it was a boatload of work for the accommodations and now that they got them, the kid stopped all meds and all therapy. Kid posted about it on Instagram. So just bc your kid didn’t benefit from it, doesn’t mean others don’t and 100% people scam the system. [/quote]

Do you even hear yourself?

"Load kids up on drugs and therapy, instead of of giving them... a few minutes to think".

Really??!! [/quote]

DP.

I think the drugs and the therapy was part of the scam.
They had to do it to make the diagnosis look real.[/quote]

This. I am that poster. The mom - a physician - said, “don’t hate the player.” She said she know they have cracked down after Operation University Blues. The day the SAT results were released, she texted and said they can drop the “charade.”

So, no one was thinking it was extra time OR drugs. It was do what is necessary to get extra time (drugs, therapy) and then drop the charade. The kid also posted on Instagram the day after the SAT results came out and said he doesn’t have ADHD after all and is now med free. I saw the post.[/quote]

There were several families in the  Varsity Blues cohort that faked the process for recruited athletes. The logic that many are applying in this thread is that all recruited athletes must be cheats since there are some bad apples who faked their records with a corrupt consultant who went to jail. It is nuts.

You are all focused on the wrong problem. [b]We need to fix the process for assessing learning disabilities in school. There are available tools to quantify and measure learning disabilities, but the only available path in our broken education system is expensive private testing. That is why there are economic disparities. [/b]Most families can't drop thousands of dollars for private testing. If schools handled this assessment process for all students, it would ensure adequate support in classrooms and reduce the risk for corrupt behaviors for securing accommodations.

No one on DCUM cares that an untold number of kids are slipping through the cracks. They are just angry and fearful that their own snowflake is potentially disadvantaged. 
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This is 100% accurate. Our DD was sent for testing in 2nd grade because her teacher noticed that she was struggling and following behind. She was diagnosed with a [b]visual disability, ADHD, and low processing speed.[/b] As testing has to be updated, we've spent almost 15K on testing over the years. It was not to scam the system, but to ensure our DD had a fair shake at getting an education. As her 2nd grade teacher said, it would be easy to write her off and pass her along as [b]a nice little girl who was just a bit dull.[/b] Yes, she got extra time along with other accommodations, but it made a huge difference in her ability to succeed because her visual issue and processing speed meant she needed those few extra minutes. [/quote]

Isn't this what we used to call a bit dull?

Is being slow a learning disability that we correct for now?[/quote]
Yes, it is as her IQ was above average, but processing is slow. Visual disability has nothing to do with intelligence. I understand your frustration but will not apologize for getting my daughter the services she needs to maximize her potential and learn how to navigate her disability. She graduated from college with honors, had amazing internships with glowing reviews, and is now in law school where she hopes to one day serve as an advocate for others with disabilities. PP, I don't understand why you are so worked up that neurodiverse kids are supported to become productive adults. I understand your frustration if people are gaming the system. But to insinuate that I should have thrown up my hands and said "Well, she's just not very smart and has bad eyes" is really mean-spirited. If your child is neurotypical, you should be grateful. [/quote]

I’m glad she got the actual learning support she needed- that’s appropriate. What I continue to find inappropriate is the denial that processing speed actually is a legitimate measurement of academic ability. Trying to remove processing speed as a variable from all standardized testing is basically saying you cannot test it.[/quote]

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