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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL, you people are so angry...it is comical.  So glad my ADHD kid got his deserved extra time that he needed and scored well on the ACT and got into his first choice top 20 school.  As for what is done to curb the abuse, I doubt it will change much.  Maybe be more careful about who gets accommodations.  If you have a kid who struggled since elementary school, it is doubtful that kid is "gaming the system."  I believe it is more suspect when kids suddenly in late middle school or in high school decide to get evaluated.  Maybe just have more stringent requirements for evaluation for them.

But you will NEVER see the accommodations go away.  Sorry, but you won't win this one...nice try though.[/quote]

Um, I was with you until your penultimate sentence in your first paragraph.  Our 14 y.o. DS was recently diagnosed with ADHD mild inattentive.  He had a few problems in 6th grade but seemed to get on top of them for two years.  Problems again in 8th, then a nosedive in 9th with teachers complaining about him - unprecedented in his school experience.  School didn't think he should have a neuropsych eval.  We did it anyways as we had never had teachers complain about his classroom presence.  A diagnosis, medication, and learning supports has transformed the last quarter of DS' school year.  I get that some folks game it, yet it is not uncommon that ADHD mild inattentive doesn't present in some students, especially boys, until late middle/early HS.  [/quote]

I agree with this, sort of.  I think may ADHD parents, including myself, suspect ADHD or notice behaviors that in retrospect we see were ADHD from a young age. My third grader with a very messy desk who melted down when we turned screens off wasn’t diagnosed until middle school.  But now I see that his ADHD behaviors were there in preschool. They were just called discipline problems and disorganization then.

But most kids— especially bright kids and especially boys— got a point where they can no longer compensate with smart and trying hard and it all falls apart. And your A kid is suddenly making Ds. It may be middle school, high school— or for kids who aren’t in DMV intense academic academic environments and just coast at the top of a podunk nowhere GS-2 with high FARMs and ESOL 2 APs classes offered bad school with much bigger issues— college.  But it does eventually fall apart for many kids.  And anti cod ally, and based on what guidance counselors at several schools have said, they watch for it and see it mostly when kids bump up to the next level of academic demands. In FCPS, it soften 3rd (especially with AAP admissions), 7th (MS starts), or 9th. My own ADHD kid went from running academic circles around his peers to us getting correspondence from the school about resources for kids, struggling academically at the beginning of 7th (2 Ds first quarter before diagnosis) the beginning of MS. [/quote]

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