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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few thoughts. 
1) extra time is not an advantage if it is proportional and legit to a dress a learning disability.  It is supposed to be compensation for a deficit. But, I agree the system needs reform.  Kids usually get a round block od extra time without proof that it is proportional to the need - in other words, if a deficit warrants an extra 10 minutes that kid likely will get 30 min or 60 min more- or no extra time at all. 
2) but OP's point that privates stack their schools with students with hooks is well taken.  It is one way they try to ensure that their college placements exceed averages.  Of course, the best advantage is just an inredibly self-motivated student with insane talent and supportive parents with an interest and means of suportting the child in any way possible.    [/quote]

The other problem is that many parents have seized unfair timing advantages for their [b]non-disabled[/b] kids by paying a "specialist" to label their kid with some specious disorder. It throws the whole practice into disrepute - too many aggressive parents gaming the system.[/quote]

My high-IQ kid has a language-based learning disability that interferes mightily with her ability to demonstrate what she knows. I would give just about anything to make it go away, but it never will. Some extra time on a test allows her to come closer to her potential and helps her not dissolve into a puddle of anxiety and self-loathing. But that in no way affects your kid. [/quote]

Please use your close reading skills. I went back and highlighted the key phrase for you to make it easier. If anyone's kids are genuinely disabled, I don't begrudge them appropriate assistance. I was talking about a particular kind of parent playing a particular kind of dishonest game to buy their child an advantage they neither need nor deserve. So again: NON-DISABLED. I know parents who have gone far out of their way, and spent significant sums, to get a sketchy diagnosis so their kid could get extra time and so on, and wow, did that every pay off in improved scores and admission to more prestigious schools than they ever could have gotten playing it straight. As other PPs have pointed out - who WOULDN'T benefit!? Anyway, OP - sorry to hijack the thread.[/quote]

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