>A person cannot have a learning disability and be below average in intelligence by definition.
Very aware of this, which essentially means that learning disabilities are a privilege for kids who are ALREADY ADVANTAGED over the other students, and yet a child with a 120IQ and dysgraphia gets to take 50% more time on their test than a kid with 80IQ basically without question, and if they press the issue they can probably get double time. That's my main issue. You need to be below 70IQ typically to be considered to have an intellectual disability.
You know, because that's fair. It's an "accommodation" for a student who has already gotten higher grades than another student to one day be pulled into a doctors office, have it explained that they have this horrible problem, and now get 50% more time on tests than somebody they were already a solid grade point ahead of, a child who statistically we can predict will live their entire lives with higher socioeconomic status and higher quality of life already!
When I noticed how a student who always got worse grades than me, who got no accommodations, I always saw him studying after school in the library and eventually realised "he must he here this every day for hours" I felt "wow this system is so fucking fair - because I lack ability, unlike him who definitionally cannot have a learning disability as he's below average intelligence, so he needs to do a harder version of the tests that I do".
Extra time on exams especially a ridiculous number like 50% is the more ridiculous accommodation in all but the most extreme cases. I got 50% extra time for dysgraphia when I was leaving tests with written essay portions early - maybe to be fair it could have taken me say 20% extra time to write. Also - despite my issues being specific to handwriting - I still got the same accommodation for computerised exams! What a fair and balanced accommodation only an ignorant person would question. I was diagnosed with a disability by a doctor so the accommodation HAS to make sense ten years later in a totally different context!
Very aware of this, which essentially means that learning disabilities are a privilege for kids who are ALREADY ADVANTAGED over the other students, and yet a child with a 120IQ and dysgraphia gets to take 50% more time on their test than a kid with 80IQ basically without question, and if they press the issue they can probably get double time. That's my main issue. You need to be below 70IQ typically to be considered to have an intellectual disability.
You know, because that's fair. It's an "accommodation" for a student who has already gotten higher grades than another student to one day be pulled into a doctors office, have it explained that they have this horrible problem, and now get 50% more time on tests than somebody they were already a solid grade point ahead of, a child who statistically we can predict will live their entire lives with higher socioeconomic status and higher quality of life already!
When I noticed how a student who always got worse grades than me, who got no accommodations, I always saw him studying after school in the library and eventually realised "he must he here this every day for hours" I felt "wow this system is so fucking fair - because I lack ability, unlike him who definitionally cannot have a learning disability as he's below average intelligence, so he needs to do a harder version of the tests that I do".
Extra time on exams especially a ridiculous number like 50% is the more ridiculous accommodation in all but the most extreme cases. I got 50% extra time for dysgraphia when I was leaving tests with written essay portions early - maybe to be fair it could have taken me say 20% extra time to write. Also - despite my issues being specific to handwriting - I still got the same accommodation for computerised exams! What a fair and balanced accommodation only an ignorant person would question. I was diagnosed with a disability by a doctor so the accommodation HAS to make sense ten years later in a totally different context!