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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017

      Woohoo. Workable solution from the school. Was getting very frustrated with their ridiculous system where she was not entitled to any allowances for significant difficulties with handwriting & spelling because she's well ahead with maths, science & tech.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017

      How does that even work? So ludicrous. You can't just take an average of grades and say that because she's slightly ahead overall, she's entitled to no support! When this breaks down to being well ahead in STEM subjects and way behind in humanities subjects!

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017

      I have been trying to point out the problem with this reasoning with increasing use of sarcasm & analogies. They still took her scribe away. I pointed out she would now fail everything which required writing. She just failed everything that requires writing.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017

      I let this happen because I wanted them to see it now and not when she's doing her GCSEs. She's still learning and progressing because she's worked hard on what she's written and she knows what it says even tho no-one else does.

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    5. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen 15 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I don't understand how this got so far, surely her teachers were able to say to them "we can't understand her without this" ?

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Zacnaloen

      I don't understand either. They kept on at me about practising, wouldn't believe me that we were, had her come to school twenty minutes earlier to practice for two years, still didn't make any difference, still no allowances. FFS!

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose @Zacnaloen

      But the phone call said enough teachers have now said they simply can't mark her work because they can't read it, that they've accepted that a bright student is going to fail when she's got the knowledge unless they do something.

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    8. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen 15 Dec 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      progress at least, shame it took this long. I always struggled with handwriting, well actually I still can't write tbh.. but it's not through lack of practise.. I can't read anything I wrote at school now, god knows how my teachers marked it

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017
      Replying to @Zacnaloen

      She has poor fine motor skills generally. She can't hold a knife and fork properly. Laces are never going to happen. Only just managed buttons.

      5:02 AM - 15 Dec 2017
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        2. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen 15 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          That doesn't sound fun, can she type ok?

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 15 Dec 2017
          Replying to @Zacnaloen

          Yes, absolutely fine! Speedy two-finger typist!

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        4. Chris Baker‏ @Zacnaloen 15 Dec 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          She'll be fine post school then :) If a little shabbily dressed...

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