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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before you bitch about things being “unfair” , please let me tell you that I feel it is very unfair that my child was born with a moderate learning disability.  I have no idea what causes it, but it affects his ability to understand language. 
My child literally does not understand words when people speak them. That’s unfairness.  It impacts almost all aspects of his life.  So please don’t begrudge him extra time on a test and educate your children not to do so either.

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No one is begrudging your kid’s extra time. And u of all people should know how unfair it is for kids who are disadvantaged economically and have disabilities but yet don’t have accommodations. So why won’t u support untimed tests for all kids? Why let the abusers get away with this?[/quote]

I am the person who wrote the post about my child above. I have zero issues with everyone having an untimed test. “U” keep posting this over and over and it has nothing to do with my post.

I’m taking issue with ranting about “unfairness”. I think these people have no idea what it feels like to be dealt an unfair hand. They don’t know what it feels like to watch an entire preschool class lap your child developmentally. They don’t know what it feels like when someone asks your four year old a simple question like how old he is and there’s a lump in your throat because you know he won’t understand the question.  They won’t understand that when he finally gets the question correctly it is because your husband spent 2 hours with him trying to help him understand.  That every verbal interaction I have with him, I’m thinking about how I could make it more therapeutic for him.  I’m so grateful that these accommodations exist and I hope they are still in place by the time he needs to take these tests. 
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I have sympathy for you but I also realize that not every child has equal intelligence or processing speed.  Why do you think your handicapped child deserves special treatment and where does it end?[/quote]

NP +1

More importantly, why do you think your low-processing-speed-kid-who-can't-understand-a-question-when-someone-asks-him should get a non-low SAT score? What does the SAT score mean to you? It honestly sounds like you're ashamed of him, want to keep up appearances, etc.

It's one thing saying that my kid struggles, needs some extra support in class, please don't let the teacher lob him questions in front of the other kids while in the "learning" (versus "testing") part of school. I support that 100%.

But not sure why you're so desperate for your kid to get an SAT score that he can't get according to the rules of the test.

I'd be so furious if I hired someone based on GPA and test scores and it turned out that they needed triple the time as anyone else to do (or even understand) a task and only got their results (whether good or just average) through accommodations. [/quote]

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