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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What concerns me from a related article is the statement that wealthier students are more likely to receive accommodations than poor students.

What happens when these kids graduate college? Is an employer going to give a person who takes twice as long to do something the same salary as someone who meets deadlines?[/quote]

The student is going to find a field appropriate to their strengths and weaknesses. Like we all do. How is this so shocking?

My dyslexic sibling takes longer to read and synthesize information than his non-dyslexic coworkers. Should he be fired? He has other strengths in his job that compensate for the time he needs to take to read information, and he deliberately chose a line of work where reading information isn't terribly time sensitive so he can spread it out and make sure he's not missing critical information. 
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No, he shouldn't be fired. But that's not the question here.  The question is whether somehow 25% of the population suddenly has learning disabilities; whether those students benefit from accommodations; whether those accommodations are legitimate or not.  Arguably, an accommodation just stops the student from learning where their proper niche is.  In high school or elementary school it might be more appropriate; but college IMO is where they start needing to face their abilities and disabilities in the real world.  [/quote]

So a blind person should not  go to college because their acccommodations just stops them from learning where their niche is? What about a deaf person? We should stop people from wearing glasses too, because that gives them too much advantage.  A person with an LD just needs a different way to access the material in school. It does not change the fact that they have to learn that material.  [/quote]

No, it's different for someone with a bona fide physical disability.  And in any event - yes, they do have to find a niche as well.  They're likely not going to go for a career in air traffic control.  [/quote]

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