[2006alum]

The problem is that in most of these alleged cases, they bribed proctors who proctor one-off "disability" tests for students who qualify for extra time. That's the way around it - the proctor "certifies" that the solo student matched the ticket/id, and then simply changes the answers for him/her.

I have long been skeptical of the "extra time for tests" accommodation, because it seems really easy to game qualifying for them, and opens the door to all kinds of cheating or unfair advantages. I'm in higher education and I have students that notify me that they need extra time for papers and exams days before these assignments are due. The university tells me it's essentially an ADA violation for me to refuse basically whatever they say the campus disability resource center tells them they are entitled to. (Notwithstanding the fact that the DRC's own website says that the professor is always supposed to be involved in developing "reasonable" accommodations.) 

I always wonder: what employer is going to hire you when you need twice as much time as every other prospective applicant to get the job done? Isn't this just giving them a longer training pole that won't, in the end, help them clear same life hurdles everyone has to face eventually in the real world?

[2006alum]

The problem is that in most of these alleged cases, they bribed proctors who proctor one-off "disability" tests for students who qualify for extra time. That's the way around it - the proctor "certifies" that the solo student matched the ticket/id, and then simply changes the answers for him/her.

I have long been skeptical of the "extra time for tests" accommodation, because it seems really easy to game qualifying for them, and opens the door to all kinds of cheating or unfair advantages. I'm in higher education and I have students that notify me that they need extra time for papers and exams days before these assignments are due. The university tells me it's essentially an ADA violation for me to refuse basically whatever they say the campus disability resource center tells them they are entitled to. (Notwithstanding the fact that the DRC's own website says that the professor is always supposed to be involved in developing "reasonable" accommodations.) 

I always wonder: what employer is going to hire you when you need twice as much time as every other prospective applicant to get the job done? Isn't this just giving them a longer training pole that won't, in the end, help them clear same life hurdles everyone has to face eventually in the real world?