Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

Every college handles it differently. And private colleges that do not receive federal funding are not required to provide accommodations. In the corporate world and the rest of life, there are no accommodations. All of this time and money spent on getting accommodations would be better spent with specialists and tutors to help students overcome and compensate for their learning difficulties.

OP here. To be honest, I am not worried about DS and his future. He has these accommodations, but would he do fine without them? Yes. Instead of a 36, he might get a 34 or maybe even a 35. That's the beauty of having high intelligence along with a disability.

Now I am convinced this is a troll. A kid with 25th percentile processing speed wouldn’t finish half of the questions in time, no matter how intelligent. Take your nonsense pot stirring elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

Every college handles it differently. And private colleges that do not receive federal funding are not required to provide accommodations. In the corporate world and the rest of life, there are no accommodations. All of this time and money spent on getting accommodations would be better spent with specialists and tutors to help students overcome and compensate for their learning difficulties.

OP here. To be honest, I am not worried about DS and his future. He has these accommodations, but would he do fine without them? Yes. Instead of a 36, he might get a 34 or maybe even a 35. That's the beauty of having high intelligence along with a disability.

Why put him through the embarrassment of accommodations for a point?

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

Every college handles it differently. And private colleges that do not receive federal funding are not required to provide accommodations. In the corporate world and the rest of life, there are no accommodations. All of this time and money spent on getting accommodations would be better spent with specialists and tutors to help students overcome and compensate for their learning difficulties.

The President can't read. There are accommodations in the rest of life.

Please take the political snark to politics. It has no place here and disrupts the thread

And what thread would that be? The one about taking the ACT if you are sitting on a prior high score?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

Every college handles it differently. And private colleges that do not receive federal funding are not required to provide accommodations. In the corporate world and the rest of life, there are no accommodations. All of this time and money spent on getting accommodations would be better spent with specialists and tutors to help students overcome and compensate for their learning difficulties.

OP here. To be honest, I am not worried about DS and his future. He has these accommodations, but would he do fine without them? Yes. Instead of a 36, he might get a 34 or maybe even a 35. That's the beauty of having high intelligence along with a disability.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

Every college handles it differently. And private colleges that do not receive federal funding are not required to provide accommodations. In the corporate world and the rest of life, there are no accommodations. All of this time and money spent on getting accommodations would be better spent with specialists and tutors to help students overcome and compensate for their learning difficulties.

The President can't read. There are accommodations in the rest of life.

Please take the political snark to politics. It has no place here and disrupts the thread

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

Every college handles it differently. And private colleges that do not receive federal funding are not required to provide accommodations. In the corporate world and the rest of life, there are no accommodations. All of this time and money spent on getting accommodations would be better spent with specialists and tutors to help students overcome and compensate for their learning difficulties.

The President can't read. There are accommodations in the rest of life.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

Every college handles it differently. And private colleges that do not receive federal funding are not required to provide accommodations. In the corporate world and the rest of life, there are no accommodations. All of this time and money spent on getting accommodations would be better spent with specialists and tutors to help students overcome and compensate for their learning difficulties.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

But PP makes a legitimate point. What happens in college? Will there be accommodations in college?

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Anonymous wrote:What does NP mean? What does DP mean?

Or SN forum?

NP is new poster, not sure what DP means but SN is special needs

Different poster

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does NP mean? What does DP mean?

Or SN forum?

NP is new poster, not sure what DP means but SN is special needs

Anonymous wrote:Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

OP is not gaming the system.

Be careful what you set your kid up for. My son’s classmate was smart but had some impulsivity and focus issues. His parents landed him unlimited time on the ACT through what accommodation I do not know. He scored a 36 and got into Duke ED. Now a sophomore, in a challenging academic environment and no one around to help him stay on task, he’s already been on academic probation once and is struggling. Sometimes a short term focus on gaming the system to get into the most selective school possible isn’t in a kid’s best longer term interest

Anonymous wrote:What does NP mean? What does DP mean?

Or SN forum?

What does NP mean? What does DP mean?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got a 55th on processing speed and 99th on everything else. If you take out the processing speed score, his average is a 158 (out of 160) on the WISC IV. He gets no accommodations. He runs out of time on every section and has a 29 on the ACT. He also struggles to finish tests at school and is a B student. According to his verbal and quantitative Iq scores, he should be the most capabale student, but because he is above the cutoff he does not qualify for accommodations. A level playing field does not exist.

But that's life.

And I will add that these tests do not determine his life. I have a kid with a LD and I know her success will be outside of the academic world. I suspect she will be more successful than my better test taking, higher IQ child, based on EQ, personality, etc.