[blindlaw] Timing of Exams

[Aimee Harwood]

Hello Jim,

I thank you for your response. I am not requesting the exam early. That is when the school says I must take the exam. The course is a night course and the other students will be starting at 6 PM. My initial request was to take it the following business day as had been allowed for an evening class I took over the summer. Exam time for that class was 6:00 p.m. as well. I hope that clarifies things a bit. I do have other disabilities and consideration but they are not the reason I would want to take an exam early. I actually feel it is against policy of the ADA and rehabilitation act to require and accommodated students to take their exam earlier then the rest of the class.

Aimee

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> On Dec 7, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Rod via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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