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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I don’t understand why a kid should get extended time to take advanced class. [/b]If the kid is so “bored” in regular class he should use that time to work on executive functioning until he is able to take advanced classes without all of the hand holding and extras. It’s just ridiculous. I realize that pride is at stake for the parents of these kids, but it’s gone too far.[/quote]

You may not understand why, but it is the LAW.  Schools are required to accommodate for disabilities, and that includes accommodation for advanced classes because they are part of what is offered in the general curriculum.  If a student otherwise qualifies (by having a high IQ or being grade levels ahead in reading or whatever), then they can sign up for any AP or advanced class offered at school and get the accommodations necessary.

Also, a kid with a disability in "executive function" is not going to be able to teach himself executive function on his own spare time in class.  If he could do that, then he could do that in his spare time at home and he wouldn't have an executive dysfunction, which is a product of brain chemistry and networks rather than some kind of motivational failing.  That you would even suggest this shows how ignorant you are about disabilities.

I have had two 2E kids with accommodations. One was enrolled at a public magnet and had a medical injury after a year at the magnet.  That DC needed extensive accommodation after the medical injury and the magnet refused and tried to kick or push her out.  We got an attorney and also wrote a letter to the superintendent, because the law says that accommodation must be offered.  There is a DOE letter on this - that kids can't be forced to give up higher classes because they have a 504 or IEP.   She stayed at the magnet with accommodations, was accommodated through HS and went to college and is working on her second grad degree. Throughout her undergrad and grad years she has regularly won academic prizes or first in class for her work.

2nd DC had an SLD in writing and reading but had a high IQ, particularly in math.  He had these from a young age.  He had an IEP in school for writing and ADHD with accommodations like extra time and copy of class notes, calculator, computer for writing, etc.  With these accommodations he was able to take the hardest AP Science and Math classes, get perfect scores on the ACT in Science and Math and go to and graduate from college in a health profession.  He is also now thinking about grad school.  Without these accommodations, I think he may not have graduated from HS.

Disability law is not ridiculous nor is it about "parental pride".

Disability law exists to ensure that people with disabilities have the same access to opportunity that non-disabled persons have because we, as a society, want to ensure that disabled students can get the education they need to become functioning, taxpaying citizens.

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