[blindlaw] Timing of Exams

[Rod]

I hate to say this, Amy, but it appears that your school is more interested 
in failing than educating you. This kind of accommodation is one I would 
have routinely received with proper justification. A friend of mine attended 
a different law school and they allowed him to take his exam in his dorm 
room, subject to the honor code.

The school can easily place sufficient safeguards to insure that the 
integrity of the exam is preserved. This is not your responsibility, but 
theirs. And they are not doing it.



Rod Alcidonis, Esq.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim McCarthy via BlindLaw
Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 2:56 PM
To: 'Blind Law Mailing List'
Cc: Jim McCarthy
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Timing of Exams

I think the issue becomes what is the disability-related reason that you
request the earlier exam? It seems possible to me that law students may
check in electronically and check out the same way when finished. If you
need to pick up the exam from a staff person and return it to a staffer, One
argument seems to be that if you get double time on an exam that starts at
6:00 pm and normal is 3 hours, you get 6, which means that you turn the exam
in at midnight. Otherwise, it probably has to be some kind of fatigue
argument connecting to blindness and or other documented disabilities.
Jim McCarthy

-----Original Message-----
From: BlindLaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Aimee
Harwood via BlindLaw
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2016 2:07 PM
To: BlindLaw
Cc: Aimee Harwood
Subject: [blindlaw] Timing of Exams

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding exams. Are universities allowed to schedule an
accommodated exam earlier than the rest of the class? One of my exams is a
night class. The rest of the class will take their exam at 6:00 PM. Over the
summer, I also took an evening class and the exam started at 6:00 PM as
well. I was given the option to take the exam early or the following
business day. I chose the following business day. I requested the same for
this exam and was denied. The reason given was that they do not remember why
they gave those options for that particular exam and that it did not apply
to any other exam.

Aimee

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