What about a child who has been 'enforced underachievement' by the school and NEVER allowed to work at their readiness level? Do you think that giving that child extra time when you first move them into their readiness level is a good idea? Or is that an unfair accommodation?
I think it's unfair to a child to set them up in that way.
And yes, I think that holding a child back from work that they can do intellecutually so that they can get good grades even though they have age-average or below age-average processing speed is a huge waste of potential and a disservice to society.
What is school for? To help each child develop as well as possible? To help sort out the winners from the losers? Spikey profile kids have spikey profiles - the last thing to worry about is 'is it fair?' Was it fair what to cally your DD lazy and keep her in for recess? You have a responsibility to your daughter and to society to get her the best fit education you can. If that means advanced classes with extra time, that's what your child needs. Why wouldn't a younger kid who needs higher level intellectual challenge get more time to move that pencil?
I think it's good that you are concerned that you aren't ripping someother mom's kid off.
((shruggs and more shruggs))
Grinity
