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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well so for Pollyanna and similar posters, what do you make of the fact that many affluent students with little to no evidence of disability are getting accommodations in order to get higher scores? Previously posted articles and posts cited private schools where a third or a half of the kids got extra time. Shouldn’t it make you angry that they are giving accommodations a bad name?[/quote]

It enrages me.

I think that for all their faults, the public schools have somewhat less of this version of abuse, solely because they are legally on the hook for more supports once a disability is documented.

Way back we sought a private school for our kid, seeking a smaller environment etc. We were asked if they’d ever had an IEP (yes), to submit a copy, and if so to submit a copy of his psych testing. He was denied at 6 different schools, including a couple that are far from selective.

For some these schools to suddenly have a cohort of kids with disabilities, when they screen out most applicants with them. adds some insult to injury for me.

Open to solutions. But I don’t think throwing out the baby with the bath water and eliminating accommodations or going to unlimited time is the solution. T

-Pollyanna mon [/quote]

Thanks. I think a lot of us, with kids with disabilities or not, are enraged at the same things.[/quote]

What is there to be enraged about?  You seriously didn't think this kind of stuff was happening.  People do crappy things because more time than not, they are not held accountable and get away with it.  That's life, it sucks, but that's life.[/quote]

It may be life but that doesn’t we should not want to right a wrong or an injustice. It’s called standing up for what is right and standing up for those who have no voice. [/quote]

There are fare more pressing issues than rich parents buying their kids into college.  How many times have you stood up for doing the right thing?  Probably never.  That is how our world has always been and always will be.[/quote]

Ah, projection. :D I prefer Pollyanna poster, thanks.[/quote]

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