There’s more about students obtaining accommodations on the Scholastic Aptitude Test because of Learning Disabilities. ABC News reporters Jake Tapper, Dan Morris, and Lara Satrakian have an article headlined, “Rich-Kids Loophole Means More Time on SAT: Educators Say More Wealthy Students Get Diagnosed With Learning Disabilities to Get More Time on Test.”
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This article made me so angry I could spit. Or throttle somebody. ARRRRRRGGGG! All rich kids with accomodations are scumbucket gamesters? Yah. Of course. And of course the article was *completely* data-free — all anecdote, all the time.
You know what they call poor kids who don’t get accomodations? Criminals. Why? Go look at the statistics on kids in the juvenile justice system — vast number of undetected, unremediated learning disabilities (and, yes, probably emotional & psychological disabilities, but let’s leave that one go…what comes first, the unremediated dyslexia, the emotional consequences of school failure, the “conduct disorder”…but I digress).
I’m with you, Liz. I’m saddened when I think about how common arguments predicated on the use of hyperbole, anecdote, and over-generalization are these days. I’ve come to expect ill-reasoning in politics, of course, but it is distressing to see it passed off as journalism. I suppose this is another indicator of the quality of instruction in education.
Onward…through the fog.