[nabs-l] unaccommodating professors

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
I had a superstar professor who did this. He was an older guy and he was 
very set in his ways. He had about 2000 students on his Corse load and he 
was also an international star. He said I would probably fail his class 
because he used lots of pictures and he wrote lots on the board. He also 
said that I would not benefit from the top notch pictures he both presented 
in front of the class and had in the textbook he wrote. He told my 
Disability counselor he was not sure how I would deal with the pop quizzes. 
On top of that, I was an honors student who had a steeper grading scale than 
the normal students.
I told him not to worry, if he was willing to listen to me, we could work 
something out. I took the head of the Accessibility department to one of his 
office hours and we hammered him with every problem a week after class 
started and we gave solutions. We also presented alternatives for him to 
choose from. He then gave us his opinions and what he was willing to do.
I talked to the professor every week and just made sure things were going 
well on his part. I ended up getting an easy A in that class and that was 
one of my favorite classes I have ever taken.
May I ask why you can't read paragraphs other students are reading? I just 
do a search for words in my word document.
Teacher tells us to look at page 45, paragraph 7 that starts "He looked to 
where her boots lay in the mud..."
I search for that and it only takes a second to search through the whole 
book.
Thanks,
Brandon Keith Biggs