[blindlaw] LSAT Accommodations?

[ckrugman at sbcglobal.net]

Is the failure to graduate the students that are accepted the college's 
fault or due to the lack of preparedness on the part of many disabled 
students that are accepted and in actuality not ready to handle the various 
demands placed on them by being in college and not being prepared to meet 
the demands. While I am a strong supporter of reasonable accommodations I 
believe that the students need to take some responsibility for the 
completion of their course of study. Matriculation is not automatic for 
disabled students or the general college population and of course is not 
guaranteed upon acceptance.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Pepper" <b75205 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] LSAT Accommodations?


> They probably do that, I know that one of thee Coolge entrance exams does
> it, but I am not sure if it is the SAT or the ACT but they inform the
> schools eactly which devices were used to take the test.  I think it is 
> both
> of them.  This is how colleges can know who is disabled and who is not
> without actually asking the student if they are disabled or not.  It is a
> great way to get around the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
> And this is good for colleges that do not have a high percentage of 
> students
> who are disabled because they will most certainly accept you once they
> realize you are disabled, to satisfy their requirements to not be 
> considered
> discriminatory.  But your chances of graduating from that situation is not
> as good as a college that accepts the disabled on a regular basis.  Of
> course state schools are more likely to handle the disabled with respect,
> since they are more in tune with the consequences of discriminiation.  But
> if you are competing with a lot of other disabled students to get into a
> college that is a good college for the blind, then you will probably be
> judged on your abilities based on being disabled and not the general
> population.  Because they will probably only admit a certain amount of
> students who are disabled as the disabled tend to cost the university a 
> lot
> more than non disabled.
>
> Since most people do not know they are doing this type of profiling, they
> have gotten away with it since 1973.
>
> You all are lawyers, can you stop this nonsense because colleges accept 
> the
> blind and disabled in proportion to their numbers in the population, but
> they don't graduate them in any proportion to the numbers they accept.
>
> James Pepper
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