[blindlaw] Timing of Exams

[Laura Wolk]

is it a violation of the ADA?  How?  In law school, students had to
get exam schedules shifted around for all sorts of reasons, from
family emergencies to falling unexpectedly ill to simply having three
exams scheduled during three consecutive time periods.  Sometimes the
exam was rescheduled for a later date, sometimes for an earlier date.
If there's ADA/Rehab Act caselaw that limits the school's discretion
to schedule exams based on accommodation requests, I'd be interested
to hear it.

I'd also be interested to hear why they couldn't just have you start
on the same day but with an earlier start time, assuming additional
time is what's causing the scheduling issue.  If the exam, say, runs
from 6p-8p, and an accommodation involves double time, why couldn't
the exam just run from 4p-8p?  Perhaps this is a scenario to explore
going forward, if it works feasibly with your schedule.

Laura



On 12/8/16, Aimee Harwood via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Sai,
>
> That does not suffice in their opinion.
>
> Aimee
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 7, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Sai via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Isn't "I want to have as much time to study as everyone else" a good
>> enough reason?
>>
>> - Sai
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Jim McCarthy via BlindLaw
>> <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 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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