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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of misunderstanding going on in this thread.  Accommodations have been a thing for quite some time; the world is not suddenly ending.

Processing speed as a technical term in the world of ed psych does not refer to general thinking speed.  Instead, it involves visual and general motor speed (including fine motor skill, hand-eye coordination, etc.), functions of the nervous system.  Slow reading can be part of the issue, but it's much more than even that.[/quote]

Accommodations have been around for ages, yes, but the abuse of those accommodations and the sheer number of students needing them is alarming.

When a class has so many students with accommodations that it is easier for the non-accommodation students to join another classroom to take the test instead of having all the others leave for the learning/testing center, that's a red flag, IMO.  My 10th grader has this issue in his Chemistry class.  His teacher and the neighboring teacher hold their tests on the same day because his class has so many students with accommodations that it's easier for the 8 without to go next door than for the 16 with to leave for the testing center.

It's just like the emotional support animal people ruining it for legit service dogs with their abuse of places not being able to ask any questions other than "is it a service animal and what service does it provide?"  When I see a dog in the grocery store, my first reaction now is to watch its behavior to see if it is well behaved (real service dog) or badly behaved (fake).  When I hear a friend talking about their kid's accommodations, my first reaction is to try to figure out if her kid really has a disability or if her kid is just stupid and they figured out a way to game the system.    [/quote]

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