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67 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h \ parent \ on: Accommodation Nation - The Atlantic Education
One place that I taught at did have an office for accommodations as you described it. We sent them the testing materials and they did whatever they needed to do to them to meet the accommodation.
I really never got worked up about it, but some of the accommodations definitely didn't feel fair to me. The main reason I didn't get worked up about it, though, is that my experience has overwhelmingly been that students who rely on abusing the system to get through end up failing on their own eventually.
my institution currently has an office that handles testing accommodations, but they'll also ask me to make extra accommodations for some students that they don't provide any extra help for. Like the blind student, or the student who didn't want to show up for class.
tbh, i wonder if i could have said "no"... maybe i could have. In the blind student's case, she turned out to be an A+ student, so in the end it was kind of a "feel good" story, but for that other person I probably should have turned it down if I could.
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What would happen if you did activities in class that counted towards the final grade?
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the ask was that they'd be excused from it or allowed to complete alternative assignments. no way i'm making up alternative assignments, so I just excused them from it.
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I wonder how I'll cope if I find myself back in a classroom
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haha.... the situation is not great.... did you see recent reporting about the math level of UCSD freshmen?
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No, but my dad and his dad before him were math teachers, so I'm well aware of the general trajectory.
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Here, #1300586
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