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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]blah blah blah.

What are you going to do when your kid is college-aged and the mandatory accommodations taper off and evaporate?  Demand that the SAT become a take-home test and MIT craft an all-new track to be inclusive?

Not every education is appropriate for every student.  My children, for example, will not be applying to either Roots or St. Coletta.  Maybe certain other kids ought to self-select away from a program that demands 25 AP courses.  Just a thought.[/quote]

You really don't understand learning disabilities, do you? Take my kid -- he's dyslexic. He's a bright kid whose brain is probably wired a whole lot differently than yours. When he goes to college, like the other kid whose mom wrote in, he'll grab a seat in the front of the classroom. He also will likely go to every single one of his professor's office hours to talk through material. He'll listen to his textbooks and outside reading in audio format. He'll probably ask his peers to use their class notes to supplement his own. He'll do everything he can to get out of the foreign language requirement or will choose a school that doesn't have one. And I highly doubt he'll choose to be an English major.

Bottom line, he'll probably have to continue to work a lot harder than your non-LD kids have to, even with all the accomodations I've listed above. I could continue to be bummed out by that and feel sorry for him (I sure did when we figured out something was not quite right), but I've given him the tools he needs to be successful and taught him to take pride in working hard. I think he's going to be just fine.  [/quote]

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