It turns blue then the CM approves it & everyone in your party goes after you and its green. So in theory you only know 1 person who is using DAS then have to i guess pay attention to who os in the party to count. This is also part of the issue right? 1 DAS user on average probably takes up 3-4 spots.
Can you identify rider swap riders or were they counted in the non-DAS “pool”?
My Gf has DAS and this describes us, we used to manage just fine with FP, with our 3 FPs we’d only use DAS once or twice a day on average, some days we wouldn’t need it at all, now that FP is a thing of the past we probably use DAS 4 times a day on average.
Haunted Mansion doesn’t have a height requirement. While rider swap riders could theoretically exist, they’re going to be statistically insignificant.
Rider swap also exists for people who may not want to go on the attraction (i.e. find it frightening). That's the case for us - my youngest does not want anything to do with ghosts, so we have rider swapped HM.
Yes, it exists, but it’s going to be statistically insignificant on a ride without a height requirement.
The national average is about 15% of public school students qualify as having some sort of disability. You number seems really unusual
I know on your podcast you had the % that ROTR and RNRC were down to start the day. Do you post those numbers anywhere on touring plans?
I didn’t say 80% of students have disabilities. I’m saying some classes 80% of the students have accommodations, this is due to tracking. In education, there are also accommodations given to students who don’t meet an exact diagnosis so they create alternate plans that give them accommodations. These would be the ones not managed through the state. The most frequent accommodations seen on these are movement breaks, access to a quiet space. So I know more parents push for that type of allowance. And some of it I’m sure boils down to traditional education doesn’t work for all kids. It has been a conversation at many PD days that the number of students who require additional services and needs has grown much more rapidly than before.
80% getting an accommodation seems unreasonable, and suggests there’s no attempt to make a showing justifying these accommodations or deny these requests. I have to seriously question the academic integrity of such an institution.
From the friends of ours that have legitimate ADA type needs (Down syndrome, extensive ADHD/Autism spectrum) to be accommodated through an IEP I have never gotten the sense the school “wants” to do this or otherwise is incentivized to service them. To the contrary, it’s often a very combative process. That is different, of course, from a school - maybe, for instance, a private school that lauds its placement at Ivies or the like - to permit extra time to take tests
