It’s not just about cynically gaming a system. It’s far worse. It’s about the uncontrolled expansion of the category of disability.
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As many as 50 percent of children in certain affluent neighborhoods have been classified as disabled and are thus eligible to take the SAT untimed https://slate.com/technology/2006/05/taking-the-sat-untimed.html …pic.twitter.com/9QsVpsvd39
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If you’ve wondered why the colleges overcome by the rhetoric of safe spaces are overwhelmingly those attended by the very wealthiest, this is part of the explanation
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So, just to underscore: this article is from 2006 and the "up to 50 percent" figure that it cites and that I repeated in my tweet is speculative. And one tweeter showed data from Greenwich, Conn. that year showing that the actual figure was 13 percent. Much lower than suggested.
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Nonetheless, the whole thread has turned into an interesting and fairly nuanced convo on the question, so I'm not deleting it even though it contains what is likely to be misleading speculation.
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Perhaps at some point I'll investigate and write on the subject -- it is of interest to me. For now, it's just a thing I'm throwing out for conversational purposes as at the watercolor and may call for future revision.
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Everyone with anecdotes about what they’ve observed with the expansive use of accommodation, my DMs are open
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So there’s some pushback in my mentions. The story is old, the estimate may be much too large. There’s also plenty of anecdotal cases in my DMs of those who’ve witnessed this kind of reclassification up close on systematic basis.
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Lots of interesting stuff in my DM’s adding nuance to the convo. May share some of it if given permission.
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This article is more than 12 years old, and was a repetition of an untrue rumor *then*. It isn't reporting, and contemporaneous studies (Mandinach et al, 2005) literally had to collapse "high ability" students out of the LD/ADHD extra time category cuz there were so few
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Which is only interesting in that it preserves a popular dishonesty from back then. It's extremely uninformative now because College Board's SSD has been revised *several times* since then. The 2006 testing environment is just not germane to what you feel is true "these days"?
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