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

[Chang, Patti]

I think the bigger question here is what should you be doing. If you rely too much on your readers for proofing then you do not become a really good proofer   for yourself. We should all use Proof readers in the final instance to catch visual things we miss but I see too many students were lying to heavily on their proofers.



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On Nov 11, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Aimee Harwood via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org<mailto:blindlaw at nfbnet.org>> wrote:

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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