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

[Anita Keith-Foust]

Wow!

-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Schulz [mailto:b.schulz at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 11:05 PM
To: Anita Keith-Foust; Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] How to Cope? - Law Student Sabotaged by Dean
andProfessors

hi,

Your question is not limited to law.
In Missouri, the supervisor of a district rehabilitation office forced one
adaptive computing contractor out of business and forced another contractor
to return to Florida when clients were assigned to her favored contractor
that was twice as expensive and doesn't even reside in Missouri.
The result was loss of income and the first contractor is now seeking other
computer related employment.
Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anita Keith-Foust via blindlaw" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
To: <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 5:30 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] How to Cope? - Law Student Sabotaged by Dean
andProfessors


> Happy Holidays Everyone!
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> Have you encountered this problem? If so, how did you deal with it?
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> What have your experiences been like?
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> Thank you.
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>
> Anita Keith-Foust
>
> 919-430-1978
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