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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe he had somebody on the inside on the College Board.  He seemed to have enough other people in on the scam.[/quote]

See above. When the CB and ACT balked at extra time for these clearly non-disabled students whose parents hired Singer,[b] the FBI asked them to grant it, so they could catch the parents [/b]as well as the paid off proctors who administered the tests and changed the students' answers.

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[b]Singer has been doing this a long time so there have been many students that got accommodations through. So put on your thinking cap -it really isn’t that difficult. Because Singer wouldn’t have been successful in his business if the parents in past years didn’t successfully receive accommodations for their kids.[/b][/quote]

So how did this happen?  I haven't heard an explanation yet.  Parents of LD and ADHD students insist that that it's very difficult to be granted extra time by the College Board, that students need to have a history of needing this accomodation.  Yet it appeared that many (although possibly not all) of Singer's clients were able to get permission with recent diagnosis and no history of using accomodations in the past.  So which is it?  If one is able to get a diagnosis of LD/ADHD, is it then easy to get permission from the College Board for extra time or not?  This scandal seems to show that the claims that LD parents makes - that it's sooo difficult to get approval for extra time is bunk.

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Because the FBI told the College Board to give them untimed tests! Honestly, do a little reading. It's laid out in the complaint.[/quote]

I think it's important to keep the cheaters separate in our thoughts from the kids/families who actually qualify for accommodations. How many parents have said that even though their child has been recommended for extra time due to a learning/attention diagnosis that they haven't used it? My DS does not use extra time on standardized tests even though his neuropsychologist recommended it and the school was willing to accommodate. He tests in a non distracting environment because some day, at work or in college, he can put on noise cancelling headphones, but he can't change his deadlines. 
[b]He's a brilliant kid with a learning disability[/b] and would definitely be taking his seat at a great college with extra time- but we're after "fit" and realism about what he (as an individual) can handle. A lot of parents whose kids have learning issues are looking for happiness and fit--because we know from raising these kids that it can be a house of cards. 
I am in no way disagreeing with extra time on tests for qualifying students, nor am I judging where kids thrive or which learning issues benefit from extra time and which do not. I'm just saying that the people cheating this test are a far different group than parents and kids who have lived with a disability. [/quote]

Of course.  :roll: [/quote]

I'm not sure what the eyeroll is for-- he is a brilliant kid. He took the WISC V with unmedicated ADHD, a diagnosed learning disability, received average performance scores, and still had reasoning scores so high that his FSIQ is in the mid 140s. He's *really* smart. [/quote]

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