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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It honestly sounds like a magnet program requiring extensive reading and writing is not for them. I'm not sure why you'd push it, especially when there are solid other MCPS options. My 2E kid is the strongest reader in his entire class and I'm not pushing him into a magnet because he will struggle physically with writing and emotionally.  "Difficulty with written expression" and "magnet program requiring extensive writing" just don't match up, sorry. [/quote]

NP. Please don’t judge.  Dysgraphia is very complex.  For some kids it is a motor/production problem, for others a language processing, for others executive function problem. The student can have dysgraphia and still be a good writer because they have good things to say, but they just need more time to say it.  It is also difficult to balance the needs of a 2E child – sometimes putting them in a classroom which is not challenging is worse emotionally than being in a program where they need accommodations.   Our DC suffers more when bored.  Far better to have accommodations to read HS or college level books at EMS than to be stuck with on level reading at home school.  It is easier for DC to write 10 pages about a topic of interest than two pages about, “what I did last summer.”[/quote]

I’m sure that’s true, but that doesn’t mean a magnet program with intensive writing is a sensible choice. It’s *writing* not “things to say”. [/quote]

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