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The real reason parents are spending $10K to ‘game’ school exams

It is not just parents who want — or need — the diagnoses for their children. Schools do too, and it’s an indictment of a broken system.

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Ask yourself this: if you had a chance to get your child extra exam time for their SATs, would you do it? 

The answer for many might be yes — even if the cost was $10,000 for a neuropsychological assessment that could diagnose them with learning challenges like Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Because maybe you’re legitimately concerned.

Maybe your child is plagued by anxiety or problems concentrating — made worse by pervasive social media or microsecond TikTok clips that destroy focus. 

And maybe ensuring even the tiniest bit of breathing room for them, at whatever cost, is worth it for getting that better grade.

So on the one hand I wasn’t surprised by the surge in high school students getting extra time on their SATs — with triple the number now receiving accommodations.

Nearly 7% of students, to be exact, across multiple exam boards received additional time or separate accommodations, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

“It’s cheating,” dermatologist, podcaster and parent Ardash Vijay Mudgil, told the outlet, noting that his daughter had told him at least 60 of her peers at school had received extra time in their exams. 

But to accuse parents of gaming the system is to fundamentally misunderstand what is going on.

It is not just........

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