[blindlaw] Law Schools Power over Readers or assistants for study and outside of classroom assignments if the individual is not paid by the school

[Gerard Sadlier]

Hi,

Have you asked the school to clarify its position on these issues i.e.
to say whether the school would wish to peenalize you?

On 11/12/16, Rod Alcidonis, Esquire via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Aimee:
>
> The short answer is no. But if you are so concerned about it, I would voice
>
> those concerns to your Dean of Students or Academic affair so that they are
>
> fully aware of those concerns. This is what accommodation is all about. IN
> the practice of law, I typically get my asssistants to sign a
> confidentiality document to protect myself/client.
>
>
>
>
> Rod Alcidonis, Esq.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aimee Harwood via BlindLaw
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2016 9:56 PM
> To: Michal Nowicki via BlindLaw
> Cc: Aimee Harwood
> Subject: [blindlaw] Law Schools Power over Readers or assistants for study
> and outside of classroom assignments if the individual is not paid by the
> school
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I am getting a reader who is paid by the state.  This reader will perform
> reading of any material for school purposes that I need them to read.  They
>
> will also proof any assignments before I hand them in.  I will use them
> during research to help locate something on the screen that is hard to
> locate it is too time consuming to navigate to just to get that one bit of
> info. Basically the individual will assist with anything vision related.
>
> My school assigns a judicial opinion the first semester of the 1L year. All
>
> graded assignments have restrictions on students getting outside assistance.
>
> We are not allowed to let anyone see our work or assist us in any way
> regarding the assignment including research. If a student violates any of
> the restrictions, they violate the honor code.
>
> Now that you have the basic situation, can the school penalize me for using
>
> a reader to assist me in any visual aspect of the assignment? If I use the
> reader to verify the formatting or point out any issues they see that I may
>
> have missed because I didn't see it?  What about penalizing me for using the
>
> reader to assist in research to find what I ask them to find  or highlight
> what I ask them to highlight? Basically, can they penalize me for the reader
>
> performing non-essential tasks on graded assignments?  How much control does
>
> the school have over the person paid by the state to assist with outside of
>
> class activities as long as I am the one doing the legal work?
>
>
>
> Aimee
>
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