Copied & pasted from my e-mail, the bottom portion is a teacher's response to a small show of solidarity. This teacher has consistently over-looked the needs of a friend of mine who is legally blind. On Thursday, she was going to show a film with subtitles (the second, so we've been through this once before). The "teacher" went so far as to tell our friend that the subtitles were not important. Myself, MeatFormer, our house mate and our sexy blind friend walked out. Enjoy.
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Great, I appreciate the heads up on the unexcused absence. If I bring a note from my parents, can I get that excused? Let me know.
Which group did Serbians historically have a problem with? I'm going to go with Albanians on this one, just a hunch. Potentially not the answer you're looking for, but I'm far too lazy to go digging about.
If a film's subtitles are not important, why are they there?
I think they might be important.
If a film's subtitles are not important to one visually impaired student, why should that one student be there?
I think, maybe, she shouldn't waste her time.
If a film is not important for that one student, why is it important for the others?
I think it might not be so important.
By showing a film with subtitles, and by not offering a viable alternative for Chach you have, all at once, alienated her, and given the other students an educational advantage. That doesn't sit well with me.
From http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/transition.html:
"...your postsecondary school is required to provide appropriate academic adjustments as necessary to ensure that it does not discriminate on the basis of disability"
"The appropriate academic adjustment must be determined based on your disability and individual needs. Academic adjustments may include auxiliary aids and modifications to academic requirements as are necessary to ensure equal educational opportunity. Examples of such adjustments are arranging for priority registration; reducing a course load; substituting one course for another; providing note takers, recording devices, sign language interpreters, extended time for testing and, if telephones are provided in dorm rooms, a TTY in your dorm room; and equipping school computers with screen-reading, voice recognition or other adaptive software or hardware."
I thought that our show of solidarity was rather appropriate given the topic of conversation in class. An attempt to incite locally appropriate change. Surely you don't disagree, or do you?
Looking forward to next week,
sarah
--- Lisa Carol George <lisa.george1@pcc.edu> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm sending this email to let you know that since
> you missed over half
> the class last night (Thursday May 31st) it will be
> counted as an
> unexcused absence.
>
> See you Thursday
> Lisa
>
fin
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Great, I appreciate the heads up on the unexcused absence. If I bring a note from my parents, can I get that excused? Let me know.
Which group did Serbians historically have a problem with? I'm going to go with Albanians on this one, just a hunch. Potentially not the answer you're looking for, but I'm far too lazy to go digging about.
If a film's subtitles are not important, why are they there?
I think they might be important.
If a film's subtitles are not important to one visually impaired student, why should that one student be there?
I think, maybe, she shouldn't waste her time.
If a film is not important for that one student, why is it important for the others?
I think it might not be so important.
By showing a film with subtitles, and by not offering a viable alternative for Chach you have, all at once, alienated her, and given the other students an educational advantage. That doesn't sit well with me.
From http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/transition.html:
"...your postsecondary school is required to provide appropriate academic adjustments as necessary to ensure that it does not discriminate on the basis of disability"
"The appropriate academic adjustment must be determined based on your disability and individual needs. Academic adjustments may include auxiliary aids and modifications to academic requirements as are necessary to ensure equal educational opportunity. Examples of such adjustments are arranging for priority registration; reducing a course load; substituting one course for another; providing note takers, recording devices, sign language interpreters, extended time for testing and, if telephones are provided in dorm rooms, a TTY in your dorm room; and equipping school computers with screen-reading, voice recognition or other adaptive software or hardware."
I thought that our show of solidarity was rather appropriate given the topic of conversation in class. An attempt to incite locally appropriate change. Surely you don't disagree, or do you?
Looking forward to next week,
sarah
--- Lisa Carol George <lisa.george1@pcc.edu> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm sending this email to let you know that since
> you missed over half
> the class last night (Thursday May 31st) it will be
> counted as an
> unexcused absence.
>
> See you Thursday
> Lisa
>
fin
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and i didn't know the ghey caused one to rise early... learn something new.
you should email that to chach, if you haven't already, i think she'd enjoy it...