[blindlaw] How to Cope? - Law Student Sabotaged by Dean and Professors

[Anita Keith-Foust]

Happy Holidays Everyone:

 

Please give me any suggestions.

 

Thank you.

 

Anita Keith-Foust

919-430-1978

 

From: Anita Keith-Foust [mailto:anitakeithfoust at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 6:30 PM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Cc: AnitaKeithFoust at gmail.com
Subject: How to Cope? - Law Student Sabotaged by Dean and Professors

 

Happy Holidays Everyone!

 

I have recently come across information that a particular law school's dean
and other faculty members secretly conspired to "encourage" a visually
impaired student not to complete law school. They actually put the
conspiracy in writing among themselves via email! 

 

They do not come straight out to the visually impaired student and say that
they are going to violate the Americans with Disability Act. Nor do they say
they will intentionally ignore the agreed upon accommodations. The tactics
they used include making it difficult by refusing to put the documents in
the right format, not giving the documents (PowerPoints, etc.) in a timely
fashion, and generally refusing to follow the accommodations agreed upon. By
the time the visually impaired student documents and files complaints, they
are behind in class. That is part of the plan to convince the student that
law school is not for them.

 

Have you encountered this problem? If so, how did you deal with it?

 

I also would like to know about the experiences of visually impaired and
blind students who successfully completed law school. For example, did the
professors follow the agreed upon accommodations? Where your classes
stationary, i.e., in the same classroom all day? 

 

I would like to know how blind and low vision law students cope with the
first year of law school when sabotage is  the plan of the deans and
professors.

 

What have your experiences been like?

 

Thank you.

 

Anita Keith-Foust

919-430-1978