[Andre_Wanglin]

What does someone who has spent his academic career with a tailored education program that provides extra time to complete tasks and take tests do upon entering the workforce? Will employers go the extra mile to cater to his needs? Will the market do likewise for his business or product? If I could have taken as long as I wanted on the SAT, I probably would have been able to get a perfect score. But then I wouldn't have been taking the same test as everyone else, would I?

[lopmotr]

If the goal of school is to get kids to learn the content of the curriculum, then that's not relevant. If you want to use it to assess how fast they learn or how intelligent they are, then that would have to be explicitly included as a goal before you designed the system. Perhaps employers and universities use school grades as a proxy for intelligence because it's convenient, but it's a little indirect. It would give falsely high scores to students who have good teachers or who hire private tutors.