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[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]

I don't see why this has become personal but the fact is one of my kids would likely have qualified for testing accomodations, both extra time and writing accomodations.  This was an option that some teachers thought we should look into. So no, I am not against kids who have invisible special needs or who have to struggle so much more than other kids for the same result, but I still don't think that pretending that they took the same exact test is fair either.  [/quote]

But my kid did take the same test.  Your poor kid.  You should have gotten him the accommodations.  What a shitty parent you are.[/quote]

Sometimes with luck and much hard work, some highly distractible kids with poor motor skills can improve to the point where accommodations are not necessasry. My kid was one of those kids.  He is doing quite well, thank you.  He is a confident kid who gets top marks at school and on standardized tests.  [/quote]

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