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Will it never END?
Mar. 15th, 2007 04:42 pmI just talked to the GED administrator. As I have been diagnosed with ADD, I am, by law, supposed to be able to request accommodations that will enable me to take the test, and have a reasonable chance of passing it, based upon my knowledge and ability.
I just spoke to Ron Pelland, the GED Administrator at The Independent Learning Center, and he tells me that when I take the test, then I, at most, can have a "Scribe" write down things for me in doing the essay questions. I can't have a computer, I can't even have a typewriter! How stupid is that? The independent Learning Center (ILC) is part of TV Ontario. I would think that, as such, the accommodations that are legal in provincial and federal laws would be allowed in taking a GED exam. One piece of information is that I ran across in researching this is that GED doesn't allow computers since it might "comprise security of the exam"...Well, if the people running the exam were stupid enough to allow people to bring in their own systems, and allow wireless networking, sure, that *could* be true, in that people would just write out the test questions, and thus the test would be everywhere after wards...but what about a typewriter? I mean, whatever the person types comes out on the paper...plain an simple, right?
All through high school, I would always do very well in the class marks, and fail miserably on the exams. This is a textbook example of the problem that people with ADD have in normal school environments. I know if I have to write out the answers to the essay questions, I will fail the GED. I may still fail the math part. I don't want to fail, and I don't want to cheat, either. I just want some fair accommodations to compensate for my problems. I don't know if a "Scribe" will do me much good. I tend to "think with my fingers" while writing...but it would be better than nothing. But they will not take the word of my doctor, who specializes in ADD. And he is a "real" medical doctor...who, I am willing to guess, also suffers from ADD, and hence his specialization.
All I know is that if I don't pass, I will have to think about legal action under the various levels of government's people with disabilities acts...
I just spoke to Ron Pelland, the GED Administrator at The Independent Learning Center, and he tells me that when I take the test, then I, at most, can have a "Scribe" write down things for me in doing the essay questions. I can't have a computer, I can't even have a typewriter! How stupid is that? The independent Learning Center (ILC) is part of TV Ontario. I would think that, as such, the accommodations that are legal in provincial and federal laws would be allowed in taking a GED exam. One piece of information is that I ran across in researching this is that GED doesn't allow computers since it might "comprise security of the exam"...Well, if the people running the exam were stupid enough to allow people to bring in their own systems, and allow wireless networking, sure, that *could* be true, in that people would just write out the test questions, and thus the test would be everywhere after wards...but what about a typewriter? I mean, whatever the person types comes out on the paper...plain an simple, right?
All through high school, I would always do very well in the class marks, and fail miserably on the exams. This is a textbook example of the problem that people with ADD have in normal school environments. I know if I have to write out the answers to the essay questions, I will fail the GED. I may still fail the math part. I don't want to fail, and I don't want to cheat, either. I just want some fair accommodations to compensate for my problems. I don't know if a "Scribe" will do me much good. I tend to "think with my fingers" while writing...but it would be better than nothing. But they will not take the word of my doctor, who specializes in ADD. And he is a "real" medical doctor...who, I am willing to guess, also suffers from ADD, and hence his specialization.
All I know is that if I don't pass, I will have to think about legal action under the various levels of government's people with disabilities acts...
