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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless you are in a private prep school w lots of wealthy families, you have no idea the amount of gaming to get extended time and/or calculators  going on for their kids. You have absolutely no idea how the whole system favors and tilts toward the wealthy. [/quote]

Sorry, but you do realize that everything the world has to offer favors the wealthy.  It's just how it works.  Health care, education, jobs, housing, you name it.  I still think wealthy people have every right to access to what they are able to pay for (i.e. a diagnosis for a LD), as long as it is legit.  And you can bet the majority of diagnoses and accommodations are legitimate -- otherwise College Board and ACT would not be in business.  Sorry, but [b]your mediocre kid[/b] will have to compete against my very bright LD kid with extended time.  He will probably blow him out of the water even without the time frankly lol!!![/quote]

Why do you assume that people who are against widespread accommodations have mediocre kids?[/quote]

There is no data showing that accommodations are widespread.  In 2017, less than 7% of students taking the SAT had accommodations -- including accommodations such as braille.

The 22% of students at Pomona that people are throwing around includes students suffering from depression and anxiety who do not have accommodations.  Considering the number of suicide attempts at TJ, I'm shocked the percentage is actually that low.  This thread is just filled with a lot of ignorant hysteria.[/quote]

No one argues about the right of blind students to have special accommodations, such as to take the test in Braille. But the number of Braille reading high school students is not large. Here are the stats for all student aged up to 21 years of old. I'm assuming that SAT-taking 10/11th/12th grade students are just a fraction of the 5093 <21 year old Braille readers.

Blindness Among Children

Total number of students: 62,528
    By reporting agency:
        Reported by state departments of education: 52,003 (83.1%)
        Reported by residential schools for the blind: 5,116 (8.2%)
        Reported by rehabilitation programs: 3,860 (6.2%)
        Reported by multiple disability programs: 1,549 (2.5%)

[url] By primary reading medium:
        Braille readers[/url][b]: 5,093 (8.2%)
        Print readers: 19,717 (31.5%)
        Auditory readers: 6,686 (10.7%)
        Non-readers/Symbolic Readers: 20,821 (33.3%)
        Pre-readers: 10,211 (16.3%)

Source
https://nfb.org/blindness-statistics

Compare and contrast with these estimates for ADHD from the CDC:-

In 2016:

Approximately 9.4% of children 2-17 years of age (6.1 million) had ever been diagnosed with ADHD, according to parent report in 2016. [Read key findings]
        Ages 2-5: Approximately 388,000 children
        Ages 6-11: Approximately 2.4 million children
        Ages 12-17: Approximately 3.3 million children

Source:

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html[/quote]

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