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

Anita Keith-Foust anitakeithfoust at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 00:30:46 UTC 2014


Thanks for the suggestions, Helga.

Anita Keith-Foust
919-430-1978

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From: helga.schreiber26 at gmail.com [mailto:helga.schreiber26 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 7:17 PM
To: Anita Keith-Foust; blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] How to Cope? - Law Student Sabotaged by Dean
andProfessors

Hi Ms. Anita, How are you? I have not any experience in Law school yet, but
when in my college I have these issues that they don't give me my materials
in time, I usually go to the Student Services Dean. However, since this Law
student has been sabotaged by the Dean of the school and the Professors by
telling him or her that he or she should not do Law school because it is to
hard, I recommend for the student to go see the Probost of the school, or
even the Vice President and tell them his situation! This is actually what I
do when I have problem with my Advisor in getting me my materials in Braille
in time, but not only that, also other issues as well! I think this is
incredible that this still happens in Law school.  And I also think he or
she should also should fight for his or her rights! Also, just to let you
know, one time my adviser told me that I should not take a math class
because she thought it was so hard for me since I am blind, but I told her
that I will do it! And in the end Ii I ended up taking Intermediate Algebra,
College Algebra, and Pre-Calculus! Hope this suggestions helps! I know that
I'm not a Law student yet.  Hope to hear from you soon. Thanks so much and
have a nice day!



Helga Schreiber

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From: Anita Keith-Foust via blindlaw
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 6:30 PM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: [blindlaw] How to Cope? - Law Student Sabotaged by Dean
andProfessors

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



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