I have had students in the past who to me are useing learning disabilty as a crutch. The accommodation plan says to provide lecture notes and read the test to them. When the power point has a chart in it and there workbook requires them to fill in a blank chart, I must fill it in for them. But when the student must retreive answers from a technical manual and fill in the blank on a worksheet they can do it. The student can read and retreive information during class with no problems, but at test time they suddlenly cannot read or understand the same material. My blame on this problem goes to the school system wich only teaches the state test. Also in school nowadays very litle note taking is required or reading asignements are being handed out. As a result in secondary education they use the same excuse as before. I am teaching and preparing the student for a technical job. To my knowledge employers do not use accommodations for employes. All employes are required to preform with little or no help. If a new hire cannot read the work order or the technical manual, I cannot trust him to do the job safely or correctly. This use of a crutch throught school only sets them up for failure later in life. Unable to read or write with no medical condition is not a disability. Yet we see it used all the time,so the student is not left behind.