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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One challenge with Eastern Magnet and accommodations is that there are alot of group projects and group work. Our DC was been able to advocate for extended time on individual assignments when needed, but for group projects it was much harder because other students are involved and being impacted.[/quote]

This is a great point.  Eastern is heavily reliant on group projects, at first with groups assigned and later more likely to have groups chosen. Because teachers can't tell other kids who gets extra time (obviously, and correctly), then the kids who need more time end up with frustrated group members. I can see how it would be really frustrating for a child who uses audiobooks, for example, to be on a group call with other kids flipping through texts to find the answer to a question together.

I'm not dissuading a 2e Humanities kid from trying, but just noting that the social dynamics might be a little challenging in addition to the academic ones, or they would bleed together. [/quote]

+1 Agree wholeheartedly.[/quote]

How could you be in a humanities magnet and have to use exclusively audio texts? That makes no sense. Reading texts seems like the basic qualification for being in a humanities magnet. My kid is 2E and not strong at math (but very strong reading/writing). I would never send him to a math magnet. [/quote]

OP again - I would have had the same thought before DC was diagnosed with dyslexia. But in fact DC is quite gifted verbally (WISC-V VCI 99th percentile) and reading comprehension (MAP-R 95th percentile). Difficulty is with written expression (especially when writing by hand) and taking longer to read printed text. To access material at their level, DC needs extended time, speech to text, and audio text accommodations.  [/quote]

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