[blindlaw] LSAT Accommodations?

[ckrugman at sbcglobal.net]

that's the point when all else has failed and you have your documentation it 
becomes litigation time.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] LSAT Accommodations?


> Chuck,
>
> I'd say lack of preparation and acquisition of skills needed for college 
> accounts for a fair bit, but sometimes it just doesn't matter what you 
> bring to the game.  Sometimes, the game's been rigged, and you may not 
> know about it until you've invested yourself.
>
> There are few coping skills that will help you if you become subject to 
> institutionalized discrimination, the subjective and reactive application 
> of unwritten policies, and vicious gossip and character assassination. 
> With strong social support, tenacity in abundance, very strong skills, and 
> the grace of God, you might survive.
>
> That's what I've been dealing with.  Of course, anyone who knows me can 
> tell you that I am a born fighter.  I don't give up.  More importantly, if 
> I have to go through it, I'm going to make sure that nobody else ever has 
> to.  And yet, even I have been ready to walk away a few times.  I can 
> promise you that anyone else would have.  I've learned that many people 
> have in the past.  Not one person with a disability has survived my 
> program in six years.
>
> Sometimes, it just doesn't matter what you do, how you do it, or what 
> skills you've got.  If your faculty are determined to see you fail because 
> you are blind, there's not much you can do until the damage is already 
> done.
>
> I don't know how we can prepare people for that, except to have them read 
> lots of early Federation history and all of Dr. Jernigan's more militant 
> speeches.  *grin*  I'm not certain it'll help, but it's the best 
> suggestion I've got.
>
> Joseph
>
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 11:06:09PM -0700, ckrugman at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>> Being a product of public schools in the 60's where I was the only blind 
>> student and college and grad school in the 70's and 80's where 
>> accommodations were negotiated between myself and the professors on a 
>> large university campus. The bottom line was that blind and other 
>> disabled students learned how to solve their problems and how to function 
>> independently in all facets of their education and life or they failed. 
>> Basic coping skills both for academic and nonacademic survival are a 
>> needed prerequisite to college and work and reasonable accommodation 
>> through any legislation is not going to bring about an increase of 
>> success in college or the real world of employment.
>> Chuck
>
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