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

[Kaiti Shelton]

Laurel,

If Scott Labarre were to even represent you, you wouldn't get the case
up and running till after this semester was over and your grade would
surely be final.  Talk to your disabilities councelor and see if they
can help; part of their job is to advocate for you in situations like
these.  Make an appointment with the dean of the language department
first.  Make sure it's face-to-face.  If you have a copy of your exam
instructions or the disabilities office has them on file bring them so
that you can show the dean.  It would also be helpful if you could get
a sighted student to describe either verbally in the meeting or in
writing which they can give to you what their exam procedures were so
the dean could compare.  If the dean refuses to do nothing go to his
boss, and if that doesn't work then I'd look into legal action against
the university, but follow the chain of command first.  You don't want
to overstep people who could help you without making a bigger deal out
of the situation.

On 2/14/13, Joshua Lester <JLester8462 at pccua.edu> wrote:
> I'll write you offlist, because I need to ask you something anyway.
> Thanks, Joshua
> ________________________________________
> From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Laurel
> [laurel.stockard at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:43 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] I believe I have been discriminated against, where to
> turn for help?
>
> What's his email? Sorry, I'm in school and can't answer the phone, but
> I can get away with email. :-)
>
> On 2/14/13, 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
>> ________________________________________
>> 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
>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
>> 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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Kaiti