[nabs-l] I believe I have been discriminated against, where to turn for help?

Mauricio Almeida mauriciopmalmeida at gmail.com
Thu Feb 14 18:42:17 UTC 2013


suing is not an easy thing to do, and let me tell you something sir, it costs a hex of a lot of money.
he might have a much better success by bargaining and treating to sue than actually suing.
I recommend you present your case to university authorities first of all.

Mauricio
On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:38 PM, Joshua Lester <JLester8462 at pccua.edu> wrote:

> Good grief!
> You better sue them!
> Contact Scott LaBarre, and he'll help you!
> That's terrible!
> Blessings, Joshua
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> From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Laurel [laurel.stockard at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:32 PM
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> Subject: [nabs-l] I believe I have been discriminated against,  where to turn for help?
> 
> As my subject says, I believe that I have been discriminated against
> by a professor at my university. I am wondering if one of you fellow
> listers can tell me where to get help. I had a French professor last
> semester. With out making this too long of a story, basically, I have
> just found out that she gave me different exams and quizzes than she
> gave everybody in the class. She made me do a different and much
> harder final exam for example. On the final, I had to go to my
> Disability Servic Testing office and answer 4 or 5 questions, in
> French of course, one page responses single spaced without use of a
> dictionary. I did not know then what everybody else did, I assumed
> they did the same as me. I found out yesterday, accidentally, that
> what she did was have everybody else come to class and get in groups.
> She then gave each group a dictionary, and assigned the groups 1
> question each. They then had to answer it and write their answers on
> the board. The whole class then discussed each question. All 20
> students made 100s on the exam. I made a 74. Had I made an "A" I would
> have made an "a" in the class. This is the most major thing she did,
> there's a lot of smaller things, but I think I can pin her down on
> this one. Where/what NFB resource/resources should I turn to for help?
> Thanks
> Laurel
> 
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