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

[Ashley Bramlett]

Laurel,
Wow, which school is this? Have they had other blind students before?
How do you usually take language tests? I would think a foreign language 
would be very difficult to take with jaws.

That is terrible your exam was much harder than the rest. If she was hard to 
work with, why couldn't you get another professor? Is she the only prof 
teaching what you needed? Sometimes, I found switching professors a good 
option if prof A doesn't cooperate.
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Laurel
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:50 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?

I've filed University complaints regarding other issues before, and it
got me nowhere. I was told that I was a lier, that in fact that have
accomodated me, when in the past I have been discriminated against,
and was told that if I didn't like it I was free to leave the
university and go elsewhere. Complaining to the university won't get
me anywhere. It hasn't in the past, with other issues which I won't
list here, and it won't now. This professor is also the chair of the
modern languages department, and I am graduating in August with my
degree in French. She has the power to retaliate if she even finds out
that I know. I know the NFB can help me, but I don't know who to
contact.
Laurel

On 2/14/13, Joshua Lester <JLester8462 at pccua.edu> wrote:
> First of all, Laurel's female!
> Second of all, I've tried going to colleges in the past to rectify my 
> issues
> and sometimes that doesn't work.
> I hope she's able to get somewhere, but most of the time, universities 
> don't
> listen.
> You've got to use the ADA and the IDEA as your defense and suing is the 
> last
> resort.
> Blessings, Joshua
> ________________________________________
> From: nabs-l [nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] on behalf of Mauricio Almeida
> [mauriciopmalmeida at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 12:42 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?
>
> 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
>> ________________________________________
>> 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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