What happens to students getting accommodations in college once they graduate?
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Anonymous
| My boss sometimes hires recent college graduates and assigns them to help out in various departments. My department has been busy so I was sent a new hire to help me out. The woman was terrible. She couldn't remember any details, needed reminders to complete tasks, goofed around online (and is not smart enough to erase the history), and was too talkative in meetings. I was puzzled how she made it through the interview process. The person who hired her said on paper she looked great- graduated from a top college with good grades. When we were talking about the importance of deadlines, the woman mentioned she got extra time to finish tests in college and someone took notes for her. That is not realistic in the real world. She never would have been hired if it was known she takes more time than other grads to finish her work. After I complained she was transferred to another department and is about to be fired because she can't keep up. |
Anonymous
| They become President of the United States |
Anonymous
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You mean they once became President.
He left office in 2009 . |
Anonymous
| Anyone with a disability must still be able to perform the essential functions of their job, even with accommodations. It doesn't matter whether she received accommodations in school or not. She couldn't do her job. Whether or not she couldn't do her job may have had nothing to do with her disability, however. She may just have been a bad fit for your organization. Many new grads are not prepared for the work world and needing reminders, goofing around online, and being too talkative are hardly the hallmarks of a disabled young person. |
Anonymous
| I had a friend who got extra time for exams because she had cerebral palsy and writing and filling out scantron forms was very difficult for her. She was a math major and was fine without extra time once she went in to grad school where the emphasis was on theory/research and not timed tests. |
Anonymous
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We have seeing and hearing impaired staff and we give them assistive devices.
We have people in wheelchairs and we make sure there are ways to get around the office without objects like stairs in their way. I find that my ADD and dyslexic and whatever staff are ususually highly intelligent but can't work for a manger that is a scatter brain. They need to know the goals of the project and cleary understand their roles. They need meetings with agendas, action items and due dates. All the basics learned in management 101. |
Anonymous
This. |
Anonymous
| this is the people in first place that got help for doing their essay. |
Anonymous
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well done 7:53!
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Anonymous
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I think she is just a bad example.
I have a great friend who is severely dyslexic (sp?) She earned a phd and does amazing work with water treatment and pollution, etc. She does speeches all over the country and is very well-known in her field. Just don't let her write an email, it's all phonetically spelled. But she worked very very hard to get to where she is |
Anonymous
I'm hearing this from lots of late 40 yo professionals. They can't believe the (lack of) work ethic of the new hires. Times, they are a-changing'. |
Anonymous
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Mine is still in college so not sure yet, but she's done a couple of internships and decided she doesn't like office work so she is looking for something else career wise.
Different kids will have different disabilities. Mine is super organized, makes lots of lists, etc, so wouldn't forget things. But she works VERY slowly so that could be a frustration for people like OP. The Lab School does a gala each year honoring learning disabled acheivers. The people honored range from artists to top lawyers to investment bankers. So there are a range of options open to kids getting accomodations. |
Anonymous
Every generation says this. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/the-laziest-generations/ The times are the same. Regrettably that means that middle aged people complain about the moral decay of the young, which ironically they parent. |
Anonymous
| I am a professor at a good liberal arts college. Every semester I receive notice from the dean's office that a small number of students need extra time on tests/papers. In almost every case, I never hear or think about the issue again. I think that by the time students have been admitted to a competitive college most have developed compensating strategies and organizational skills. Also most do not want to draw attention to themselves and probably work hard to succeed. On very rare occasions I notice that a student does indeed need more time or is consistently distracted or disorganized. However, more often these are student with no documented issue--maybe something is going on in their lives, maybe their having too much fun in college, maybe they have been relying on their smarts and are a little overwhelmed with the freedom and greater demands in college (which, of course, will only become greater in real life). My point is that, in my experience, giving kids the support they need tends to work and lead to independence. But sometimes a person--any person--may encounter new demands and feel overwhelmed. |
Anonymous
I honestly wonder if this is because many more college grads today are not working during college in professional environments. In college, I was a summer intern for the Fed govt and I learned a ton during those summers about how to conduct myself in an office environment. |