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

Thu Feb 14 19:55:19 UTC 2013

Exactly. She is long track, and has tuns of power overthere.
Basically, her word is law. I'm thinking that at least, if I can't do
anything else, I am going to wait until I have my degree in hand in
August, and then write her a letter and just tell her, look I know
what you did and I want you to know that it's not ok. HOnestly, she
didn't want me in her class because I'm blind. She tried to fail me,
but I didn't even know I was being discriminated against at the time.
I beat her at her own game and passed. I literally just thought it was
that hard and at the time I didn't know anybody in the class.
Laurel

On 2/14/13, Loren Wakefield <theweird1 at centurylink.net> wrote:
> The problem here also is that if the prof is chair of the department, then
> she is probably tenured.  This makes it harder to bring complaints against
> and have any sort of meaningful action taken.  But you should follow the
> chain of command first.
>
> Loren
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Kaiti Shelton
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:03 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?
>
> Josh,
>
> The ADA is great, but you can't just automatically slap everyone who
> descriminates against someone with a disability with a lawsuit.  If it
> comes
> down to it and that's what must be done then that's one thing, but there
> are
> certain steps which should be taken before putting the time, effort, and
> money into suing a person.  Plus, I'm assuming that this is not Laurel's
> last semester in school, so it wouldn't be wise to just hire a lawyer and
> make a bunch of legal fuss without going through the chain of command
> first.
> I feel that would just create more enemies than this one professor, not to
> mention make Laurel look bad for not trying to resolve the issue in a more
> dignified and civilized way before going to court.  A sensible dean will
> not
> stand for descrimination from a faculty member, especially if they see
> Laurel in an appointment.  College administrators are mindful of things
> which could causse lawsuits and will do what they can to avoid them, and if
> this French professor really did descriminate and Laurel can prove it in a
> calm, civilized way by presenting the facts I bet her prof will have some
> form of consequences from the university.
>
> On 2/14/13, Kaiti Shelton <crazy4clarinet104 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
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