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My step-daughter has been told she can have a 'reader' to help her with the exam papers, as she is severely dyslexic, as is her mother.

Attention span is not, to my mind a valid issue. The student knows there's a job to be done. End of.

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It might be worth doing if you could load the iPod with some useful revision, the actual answers would be even better.

I would call that "initiative". :thumbs:

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anything acoustic and a few songs by dire straits etc
Ye hid me worried furra wee whiley there Andy ;)

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remove the vocals and i probably could listen to that while im working. recently been listening to seasick steve to work by, gets you in the zone.
I am getting worried again, Connie Francis?

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To threaten a school with legal action, a school that we all pay for (It's compulsory Newt, it's not an insurance 'choice'), because a person that, with the best will in the world, may not be able to achieve success in fields that a non disabled person can is, in my opinion a complete cheek.

I completely agree but if I read the opening article correctly, that is not what was at issue. The mandate was for an accommodation that would allow a student to take an exam with the same chance of success the other students (who probably needed things quiet) had.

 

None of us know if this youngster would be able to find a decent job they could do successfully if they received an education but I think we all can agree that if they cannot complete an education, their chances will be much lower. A classroom exam structure that works against them just doesn't make much sense to me and a chance that someone will be able to work rather than spending life on the dole would seem to be a good thing for tax payers as well as the student.

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