Not all kids that need and deserve accommodations are academic superstars. At least, they shouldn't have to be to be "worth" it. (Back to my conversation with the snotty counselor, actually...)
We got kind of the opposite response from our school psych earlier this yr (although, with a lot of pressure, the tune did finally change).
Essentially what we were told was that kids who needed accommodations were just not very able and wouldn't score well on tests with or without the accommodations (i.e. they might go from low scorers to mid scorers at best). I believe that what was said after that was that they may as well just have the kids who need accommodations test without them to see how they do without accommodations b/c kids who need accommodations wouldn't be contenders for things like NMSF either way. The gist I got was that she didn't believe that 2e was a possibility. You are either bright and, therefore, needed no accommodations b/c you can't be both intelligent and disabled, or you are not too bright and there is no point in giving you accommodations b/c you're going to do poorly either way.
