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If two kids are taking a test, and one kid gets a calculator and extra time and the other kid does not, THEY ARE NOT TAKING THE SAME TEST.

The idea that one kid should get special accommodations because he's 75% in one area and 25% in another instead of 50% and 50% is absurd.

If the other kid also had a calculator and extra time, he would make fewer careless mistakes and answer more questions too.

Your kid's high test scores depends on a curve that you juiced with unfair testing conditions.  It is not a realistic representation of your kid's abilities (or the challenges they will face in the future).

We are going to look up in ten years and instead of 22% of kids at these schools being "disabled" it's going to be 35%.  Then 45%.  The system will break down from it's own selfishness.

There needs to be a method of giving kids accommodations that don't involve unfairly penalizing other kids (and then obnoxiously bragging about it).  I don't think anyone cares about a kid getting an audio textbook instead of a written one, for example.  
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Agree 1000+.  The calculator accomodation - just give it to all the kids.[/quote]

The fact that so many of these parents are so off put by the idea that some other kid might also get a calculator and more time to finish the test shows what they are really about, and it has nothing to do with fairness.  
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