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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be okay with testing accommodations if the student's test score and academic transcripts indicated that testing accomodations were used.  What isn't fair is that people want both the advantage of testing accomodations and the privacy of pretending that those accomodations were not used and that their child was able to take the same exact test in the exact same conditions.

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Why do you feel the need to have your kid compete against a kid with special needs.  You are basically saying you want your kid to have an advantage with this statement.[/quote]

Not the pp, but why should a kid with typical ability who has worked hard to achieve an SAT score of 1350 and a GPA of 3.7 under standard time constraints, often running out of time on tests (because, you know, that actually happens to typical kids too) lose a spot at a college to a kid who had extra or unlimited time to turn their 1350 into a 1500 and their 3.7 into a 4.0? There is no such thing as a level playing field when kids who are perfectly capable are getting accomodations to get ahead. The college has no idea who needed or didn’t need accommodations, or who got or didn’t get accomodations, and therefore can’t judge who will be most successful in their program. [/quote]

Well to bad.  The kids who actually have the diagnosis have a condition that prevents them from demon strating their true capabilities.  Your kid does not have that disadvantage.  Hence the extra time for the disadvantaged kid to create the level playing field.  I am sorry your kid is too dumb to get a good SAT score.  That is just the way it is.  Mine happens to be gifted and the extra time gives him the opportunity to demonstrated that he is.[/quote]

Then you shouldn’t care then if his/her scores are flagged that extra time was given since he is gifted....[/quote]

You can say that forever.  What is it about medical privacy you don’t get. You want to send your entire medical chart in with your resume? Then we can talk mandating disclosure of medical conditions to college.  Maybe you are in perfect health with a 25 BMI and great cholesterol and not pre-diabetic and no BRACA gene and no abnormal Pap smears or abortions and no STDs, etc. but 80% of Americans are not.  In fact, POTUS apparently can’t even be honest about his pre-election health exam. Which every member of the military must undergo to serve.

I’m sorry your kids scores disappoint you. Trying to make my kids scores lower are not going to raise them any.  Or make her GPA higher. Geez. Personal responsibility and all that. [/quote]

As soon as you drag politics into it, you lose all credibility [/quote]

No.  There is a mindset in thus country that my failures must be someone else’s fault.   Quit looking for someone else to blame because you are disappointed by your kid. [/quote]

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