@CCtoAlaska I can’t speak to your specific examples of a kid who “can’t read or write at any level of fluency” being admitted to a selective college, but be assured that if that is truly the case, they don’t graduate.
However, unless you actually understand the accommodations given to a particular child, you are in no place to judge. And if wealthier kids get accommodations at higher rates, it is still not a “marker of
privilege “ to require accommodations.
My daughter is very bright, and hearing impaired. She experiences high levels of anxiety when she cannot hear what is going in around her, especially in a fast-paced
learning environment. She gets extra time in standardized tests, and can ask for a copy of the teacher notes or outline, or a note-taking buddy instead of having to write and
listen at the same time, which requires far more cognitive effort than for a child with normal hearing.
Is this cheating?Or “privilege”? Because it hasn’t felt like a
privilege dragging her from doctor to doctor and therapy to therapy and fighting the school and finally paying for her private school tuition…
Her program now includes kids with language based LD
ranging from hearing impairments and auditory processsing issues to dyslexia. Somemof the kids use audiobooks. Is this cheating? Would it be cheating if it were braille?
You really should keep your nose i. your own plate as my gramma would say, unless you have an intimate knowledge of the individual situation. You can’t generalize disability.