Feel like I need to babysit my professors so I get my extra time accommodation

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

No. As a former 504 coordinator at a local college, it is the college's job to be informed about these accommodations. The office of Disability Rights has already notified the professors - it's the professor's jobs to be aware. It's fine to remind them here and there but it shouldn't be a regular thing. The whole point of the plan is to NOT have to alert a prof every.single.time. you need your accommodation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand why some people can get more time in college.

I really hope this doesn't flow up to the workforce next. Employee A wants more time for his deadline but Employee B isn't eligible for more time, meanwhile the customer still wants it in the same timeframe.

It does flow up to the workplace, dummy. Clearly you aren't a manager or an important person anywhere. There are laws inlace to allow or the extra time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand why some people can get more time in college.

I really hope this doesn't flow up to the workforce next. Employee A wants more time for his deadline but Employee B isn't eligible for more time, meanwhile the customer still wants it in the same timeframe.

It does flow up to the workplace, dummy. Clearly you aren't a manager or an important person anywhere. There are laws inlace to allow or the extra time.

There is no law in place to allow a nurse to deliver medications 2 hours later to allow a project manager to deliver the project to his client a week past the clients deadline. Nice try.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

Students at lower ranked colleges often call professors "teachers." Many of these kids see college as an extension of high school.

No they don't. It's "professor".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand why some people can get more time in college.

I really hope this doesn't flow up to the workforce next. Employee A wants more time for his deadline but Employee B isn't eligible for more time, meanwhile the customer still wants it in the same timeframe.

It does flow up to the workplace, dummy. Clearly you aren't a manager or an important person anywhere. There are laws inlace to allow or the extra time.

There is no law in place to allow a nurse to deliver medications 2 hours later to allow a project manager to deliver the project to his client a week past the clients deadline. Nice try.

What on God's green earth are you talking about????

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand why some people can get more time in college.

I really hope this doesn't flow up to the workforce next. Employee A wants more time for his deadline but Employee B isn't eligible for more time, meanwhile the customer still wants it in the same timeframe.

It does flow up to the workplace, dummy. Clearly you aren't a manager or an important person anywhere. There are laws inlace to allow or the extra time.

There is no law in place to allow a nurse to deliver medications 2 hours later to allow a project manager to deliver the project to his client a week past the clients deadline. Nice try.

What on God's green earth are you talking about????

The PP said there were laws - LAWS!- in place to continue to allow these individuals to operate on a different schedule with extra time built in in the workplace. I’m pointing out that that’s completely false and ridiculous. I assume you’re agreeing with me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand why some people can get more time in college.

I really hope this doesn't flow up to the workforce next. Employee A wants more time for his deadline but Employee B isn't eligible for more time, meanwhile the customer still wants it in the same timeframe.

It does flow up to the workplace, dummy. Clearly you aren't a manager or an important person anywhere. There are laws inlace to allow or the extra time.

There is no law in place to allow a nurse to deliver medications 2 hours later to allow a project manager to deliver the project to his client a week past the clients deadline. Nice try.

What on God's green earth are you talking about????

PP was making a valid point about the way woke extra time accomodations are destructive, sending young adults into the working world who aren't prepared for the fact that in most jobs, you don't get twice as long to do something just because you claim some nebulous disability.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

No. As a former 504 coordinator at a local college, it is the college's job to be informed about these accommodations. The office of Disability Rights has already notified the professors - it's the professor's jobs to be aware. It's fine to remind them here and there but it shouldn't be a regular thing. The whole point of the plan is to NOT have to alert a prof every.single.time. you need your accommodation.

That's not how it works. The student informs the prof at the beginning of the semester. Then no less than a week prior to a test, the student fills out a form to request proctoring by the disability office. That email goes to the professor for approval (prof can't disapprove, but I've declined if, for instance, a student lists a time for the test that doesn't align with the normal class time + the extra time).

I don't know whether the kid was prompted to fill out the pre-test form by the disability office, but I don't think so.

So the ball is in the kid's court for each test. If they don't fill the form, they take the test with the rest of the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

No. As a former 504 coordinator at a local college, it is the college's job to be informed about these accommodations. The office of Disability Rights has already notified the professors - it's the professor's jobs to be aware. It's fine to remind them here and there but it shouldn't be a regular thing. The whole point of the plan is to NOT have to alert a prof every.single.time. you need your accommodation.

I had an accommodation and this was never the case. For profs with hundreds of students--some who want to sometimes use their accommodation and sometimes don't--this is just not a workable plan. Disability Rights offices should take on more of the responsibilities or let students know that they need to alert the professors rather than feeding them this fluff if that's what you are doing. Some classes don't have a single exam until the end--the first week notification is just not going to cut it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand why some people can get more time in college.

I really hope this doesn't flow up to the workforce next. Employee A wants more time for his deadline but Employee B isn't eligible for more time, meanwhile the customer still wants it in the same timeframe.

It does flow up to the workplace, dummy. Clearly you aren't a manager or an important person anywhere. There are laws inlace to allow or the extra time.

There is no law in place to allow a nurse to deliver medications 2 hours later to allow a project manager to deliver the project to his client a week past the clients deadline. Nice try.

Are you bigotedly pushing disabled people out of the workplace

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If my disability is that I have a low IQ, can I be given easier questions on exams and still get credit for passing the same classes as my normo-IQ classmates? I know this sounds snarky but I’m actually a little curious. If someone gets extra time because they can’t finish the test on time (and the results will be compared to the results of students who didn’t take extra time), can someone else also get different questions if their disability makes it hard for them to understand the original questions?

You aren't being snarky, you being a bigoted A-hole. You don't have this disability; you don't understand it; therefore, you feel free to mock it.

Maybe someone with such a disability shouldn't be in college.

DP. This is a bigoted takeaway.

Good to know I'm bigoted after all the time I've spent in the special needs world.

I have no idea what OPs issue is, but her attitude is the largest disability here.

+10,000

[Anonymous]

This thread reminds me that my PhD parents were happy to retire from their professor positions after this kind of attitude became the norm. Sadly, they loved their jobs for decades prior.

Sweetheart, you are not “babysitting” your professor. You are advocating for yourself. You are communicating.

[Anonymous]

Op, the professors will give you your desired extra time but this needs to be planned out and scheduled for you and many others. There is no administrative help for this. Professors get random letters over the first three weeks of a semester requesting a wide variety of accommodations. Implementing the broad assortment of requests is another matter. You, Op, only have your one request to worry about. Just speak up and talk with the professor a week or so prior to an exam to make sure your extra time is programmed in. The professors are happy to do it. No one is willfully trying to deny you of your accommodation. Just open up a dialogue and follow up to make sure the provisions are programmed in correctly. For example, professors can’t see your schedule, so they would need to program your start time either earlier than the regular class or end later than your regular class time. They also have to put in the accommodations of all the other 15 students as well. It can change for every test. It’s a lot of logistics added on to the creation and launching of an online test. Try to get some perspective from the side of your professor, too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I really don't understand why some people can get more time in college.

I really hope this doesn't flow up to the workforce next. Employee A wants more time for his deadline but Employee B isn't eligible for more time, meanwhile the customer still wants it in the same timeframe.

It does flow up to the workplace, dummy. Clearly you aren't a manager or an important person anywhere. There are laws inlace to allow or the extra time.

There is no law in place to allow a nurse to deliver medications 2 hours later to allow a project manager to deliver the project to his client a week past the clients deadline. Nice try.

Are you bigotedly pushing disabled people out of the workplace

Np I think we need a national discussion about what is and isn’t disabled. I have ADHD. I do not believe that should allow me extra time or make anyone around me do extra work/ accommodations. I’m an adult. I either get meds/ take executive functioning courses / leave myself extensive notes. Why should someone’s minor classification disadvantage those around them? It’s on me to make sure I focus.

A blind person who needs adaptive materials is completely different. A quadriplegic using a computer to type- great! I work at a job with a high number of very disabled persons and they get their jobs done extremely well, but somehow ADHD has become an excuse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Dr. Blah blah blah is appropriate for college professors, sweetheart.

It’s your job, and your job alone, to inform professors about your needs.

It’s not preschool, it’s college.

Welcome to the real world.

Students at lower ranked colleges often call professors "teachers." Many of these kids see college as an extension of high school.

No they don't. It's "professor".

Students below the T10 struggle with "professor." They have an easier time with "Doctor," which is why so many professors at these schools introduce themselves that way.