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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. When everyone gets accommodations, no one gets accommodations.[/quote]

Accommodations are not supposed to be an advantage, they are supposed to remove a barrier that allows the disabled person to perform.  Of course with a timed exam, extra time seems like an absolute advantage more than it does a wheelchair ramp.[/quote]

Extra time only seems like an advantage to you because you don’t have a barrier that needs to be removed.[/quote]

I suspect most don't have issues with accommodations when genuinely needed.  It's the abuse of the accommodations by those who don't need them in order to get a competitive advantage that is the problem. Don't be naive, these diagnoses can be bought.[/quote]

This is the issue.  If you live in an affluent suburb or send your child to private school, you will see that kids who did perfectly great without accommodations decided around 9th or 10th grade to get an MD to diagnose them for anxiety or ADHD in order to get more time on standardized tests.  There is rampant abuse of the system - the 40% probably reflects about 40% of the kids at many private schools (or wealthy public schools). [/quote]

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