Which brings me to my point... why should a kid get into a school because of their race/color/creed/sex? Shouldn't it be based upon merit? If you have a proven record of doing well in school and extracurricular activites, then you should be accepted into the college. It shouldn't be based upon finances, or what color/sex/creed you are. Just the pure ability to do the work and handle the work.

My son has a learning disability. This disability is his "leg-up" against the competiton because schools are tripping over themselves to fill seats with kids who have learning problems. After a few law-suits, the schools want people to see they won't discrimiate against "slow" kids. They are offering him free tutoring, free services to type his papers, free... a whole lot of things will be free. Hubby and I of course will take advantage of it. BUT I feel guilty. Our son should be working ten times harder than he is to overcome (thats not the right word, but I can't think of it right now) his disability. The boy's not dumb... quite the oposite. He's just LAZY. And I mean laziness goes to new heights with him.

I feel that so far, the schools have babied him and allowed him to make too many excuses for too many things. He can't write a proper sentence. OMG! you should read some of the stuff he's written. It makes your head hurt. The school says "Well he knows what he wants to say, but can't get it to paper." I'm dyslexic too (only with numbers, not words) so I know how he feels - the fear of getting it wrong, how easy it is to make the simplest mistakes... but he abslutely refuses to read or write. He's not made to do so at school. Thats not fair to send him to college when he's not prepared for the workload... then the school's only too anxious to offer him services that will help him. fine, help him. But how will that help him in life after graduation? Will they have people following him in his career writing his reports?

Why should a hard working kid lose their place in school/job/life because my lazy son has a disability? It the same thing in my book. Only they are giving him a free ticket because of dyslexia instead of the color of his skin. He'll never outgrow it. It'll always be a part of him, but I feel that its up to him to rise above it and become a success in spite of it not because of it.