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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not difficult to get extended time accomodations for wealthy kids in the private schools - 1. Get a psychologist to certify your kid  - as you can see from the Singer case this is quite easy. 2. Get private school to set up plan - this is easily done in private schools if a big donor 3. College Board and ACT will automatically approve  vast majority of students who receive school-based testing accommodations

What a great life lesson you are teaching your child....and heartening to know the schools are complicit in the lie.

The real lessons hopefully gleaned by parents from the Atlantic article:

"A white student from a professional-class or wealthy family who attended either a private high school or a public one in a prosperous school district was all but assured admission at a “good” college.  A very strong but not spectacular white student from a good high school is now trying to gain access to an ever-shrinking pool of available spots at the top places. He’s not the inherently attractive prospect he once was...

The changed admissions landscape at the elite colleges is the aspect of American life that doesn’t feel right to them; it’s the lost thing, the arcadia that disappeared so slowly they didn’t even realize it was happening until it was gone. They can’t believe it—they truly can’t believe it—when they realize that even the colleges they had assumed would be their child’s back-up, emergency plan probably won’t accept them."

And finally, to sum it most parents in the DMV and certainly much of what we hear on DCUM boards: 
"Huffman, like all of the other indicted parents, was expressing an attitude I first encountered not in the great books, but in the Charlie Brown Christmas special, when Sally dictates her endless list of toys to Charlie. “All I want is what I have coming to me,” she tells him; “all I want is my fair share.”
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The PP is just outlining reality. As indicated in the article, kids without accomodation are actually the disadvantaged group. [/quote]

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