Let's get back on topic - Education History does record It was Bob and Charley Ford That laid poor Jesse in his grave
My son is working as an SAT tutor for a guy who was admitted to an Ivy League university in autumn of her junior year. (Nice trick, that.) He is a recruited athlete who isn't all that good at school, and especially at tests. Fortunately, the university gave him a low hurdle -- if he scores 300 points lower than my son did, his provisional acceptance becomes permanent. (Not that any Ivy accepted my kid, of course.) He probably won't pass, because to quote my boy - 1) "He's kinda dumb" and 2) "He never does her homework." This despite the fact that he gets 50% more time to take the test, although he has no disability, because "his rich kid family got some doctor to sign a note." Such an American tale.
Sorry, "he." I was multitasking. Probably more coddled and lazy than dumb, the kid was venting a bit because it's frustrating to try to teach somebody who can't be bothered.
12 Republicans cross party lines to smackdown DeVos' rule that would make it harder for defrauded students (like Trump U students) to have debts forgiven. More surprising is how Trumpism has seeped into govt. departments. Like this DOE asshat "It's disappointing to see so many in Congress fooled by misinformation from the Left and the fake news narrative about our efforts to protect students from fraud," Angela Morabito, an Education Department spokesperson, said in a statement responding to the vote. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/11/betsy-devos-senate-vote-student-debt-relief-125826
The kid. He ain't buying it. Getting extra time is a rich kid scam, half the students in his high school get doctors to write such notes. OK not half but a lot. I'm betting that damn few working-class students get that privilege.
My kids are on IEP's and get extra time as well as a reduced curriculum. Talking to their intervention specialists, there is a high number of kids at their HS that are on some kind of IEP for various reasons, dyslexia, processing delay, learning disabilities. It's pretty shitty for you to make a blanket statement like that.
The point was not about the practice of giving some students extra time, it is about the practice being abused by those who use it as a trick to help their already privileged children. I am assuming that does not apply to you.
Just because your son can't see the disability doesn't mean it doesn't exist. That was my point. For you to say any rich kid can get a doctor's note to get an extra 30 minutes to take an exam is just you talking out of your ass.
Technically, my son. I will check with him to see if he's sure of his assertion. Ah never mind that, here's a NY Times article on the practice. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/30/us/extra-time-504-sat-act.html You sure were certain of yourself.
Am am "certain" of myself. You made a blanket statement not knowing if the kid in question actually has a disability. It was a shitty thing to say.
What I'm wondering with school closures from university level down to K-12 how will the face of education and instruction change to meet this pandemic of Covid19 and afterwards. If public officials are bannjng public gatherings of large amounts of people from 100-1k in some cities, shutting down museums, sports brought to a halt isn't it half ass to continue to let school in session. K-12 campuses range from small to massive but aren't schools a prefect vector to spread this disease? Yes young people or school age children aren't getting sick or have died thankfully, but they can carry it and pass it off at home or in the general public. New York said it banned all gatherings at public places but not schools and mass transit doesn't that defeat the purpose of social distancing? For many parents school is daycare and an all day event for their kids to be educated but also to socialize and to be watched. With school closures parents will be overburdened. It's complicated but to get it under control they will have to address schools nationwide and its temporary closure.