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Originally Posted by Damien
While the pet thing is stupid, what is wrong with extra time allowances?
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Please tell me where I said that time allowance for physical disabilities are wrong.
When I was 11 years old, I took the 11 plus exam. According to my form teacher I failed by the smallest margin allowed. No account was taken of the fact that only five months before my father who was aged 31 was killed in a motorcycle accident. My mother who had a chronic heart condition from the age of 14 had been in hospital for 12 months and my dad was killed on the day she came home, she never saw him. She was very soon back in hospital and myself and my two younger brothers went into temporary care. Unfortunately this was in a town 5 miles from our home so although my brothers went into nursery/infant school, I was placed in a completely alien primary school for 5 months before returning to my own school just before the 11 plus exam.
You will forgive me if I have little or no patience with today's 'liberal, wishy washy, softly softly' approach, but I have had to get by with my basic common sense and my self belief. Anything I have, I worked for myself without any help from the state, that is why I have a passionate dislike of Labour's overweaning, "we know best" tax and waste, government.