Robert LohleinCHEP

While I am not saying that there are not students with real douctmented problems. I think that if the student has a accodmation plan that has been used all throught school a second evaluation should be needed in secondary education. The student may have out grown the plan, or has improved to a point to where it it no longer needed or may need a modification for new issues. With out this we have students that will use it to there full advantage. I have seen when I have been required to read a test to a student he tells… >>>

I have had students in the past who to me are useing learning disabilty as a crutch. The accommodation plan says to provide lecture notes and read the test to them. When the power point has a chart in it and there workbook requires them to fill in a blank chart, I must fill it in for them. But when the student must retreive answers from a technical manual and fill in the blank on a worksheet they can do it. The student can read and retreive information during class with no problems, but at test time they suddlenly cannot… >>>