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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher and I have a student whose accommodation is that she never has to turn anything in on time.  Ever.  Won't she make a great employee someday?  Just hope you're not the one who has to stay late and pick up the slack when she requests yet another extension.[/quote]

You sound horrible.  Hope you are not at my child's school.[/quote]

I'm a professor, and I will end up with--and have ended up with--the HS student who can't turn in a paper on time. I totally empathize with the teacher who posted. Far from thinking that this teacher is horrible, I would think long and hard as a parent about the necessity of certain accommodations. Parents are not doing their kids favors in the long term by maximizing the number of accommodations they think their child may qualify for. I also worry that parents are unintentionally destroying the confidence of their own kids. Call me a horrible professor, but the fact of the matter is that there is something terribly wrong with the way in which we are raising our children such that getting a paper done on time, even after they have had a month to write it, is causing so much stress and anxiety that it can't be done without drugs or an extension. [/quote]

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