Law Schools delaying exams because of “trauma"

[Anonymous]

If I am ever in need of an attorney, you can bet I won’t go to an attorney who needed to postpone his/her final exam due to being traumatized by the Ferguson and NY grand jury verdicts. These are people preparing to be ..... LAWYERS! If these little snowflakes think it’s tough to make it through exams because of the outcome of a grand jury, how in hell are they going to survive arguing a case in an actual courtroom? This is absolutely ludicrous. Way to prepare these fragile little darlings for the real world, Columbia, Harvard, and Georgetown!

Columbia Law School has agreed to delay final exams for students who face "trauma" and disillusionment following two recent, racially-charged cases in which grand juries declined to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men. And now, students at Harvard and Georgetown want the same dispensation, also saying they just can't face their tests in the wake of the grand jury decisions in Missouri and New York.
A "trauma specialist" will also meet with students at the campus this week. The University of California-Irvine offered students a similar counseling last week to help with "healing, grieving and support."

In addition to Columbia, law school students at Harvard and Georgetown are apparently equally dismayed by the non-indictments and are reportedly asking for similar accommodations

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/09/columbia-law-students-get-exams-delayed-to-deal-with-trauma-ferguson-garner/

[Anonymous]

Doesn't matter because many of the snowflakes will never work as lawyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't matter because many of the snowflakes will never work as lawyers.

The ones at Harvard, Georgetown and Columbia? Hmmm.

[Anonymous]

That's pretty absurd.

[Anonymous]

So the ones who are looting are thugs, and the ones who are distraught are weaklings. Is there any appropriate reaction in your mind, other than applause?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the ones who are looting are thugs, and the ones who are distraught are weaklings. Is there any appropriate reaction in your mind, other than applause?

there's nothing wrong with being distraught, but if you try to explain to a client that you didn't meet their deadline b/c of trauma associated with a public event you will be out of a job fast. plenty of people are very upset by this and are still managing to get their work done.

[Anonymous]

Christ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the ones who are looting are thugs, and the ones who are distraught are weaklings. Is there any appropriate reaction in your mind, other than applause?

there's nothing wrong with being distraught, but if you try to explain to a client that you didn't meet their deadline b/c of trauma associated with a public event you will be out of a job fast. plenty of people are very upset by this and are still managing to get their work done.

they are years away from having their own clients.

[Anonymous]

Ha ha they think this is trauma. Just wait until they get out there in the real world especially as lawyers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I am ever in need of an attorney, you can bet I won’t go to an attorney who needed to postpone his/her final exam due to being traumatized by the Ferguson and NY grand jury verdicts. These are people preparing to be ..... LAWYERS! If these little snowflakes think it’s tough to make it through exams because of the outcome of a grand jury, how in hell are they going to survive arguing a case in an actual courtroom? This is absolutely ludicrous. Way to prepare these fragile little darlings for the real world, Columbia, Harvard, and Georgetown!

Columbia Law School has agreed to delay final exams for students who face "trauma" and disillusionment following two recent, racially-charged cases in which grand juries declined to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men. And now, students at Harvard and Georgetown want the same dispensation, also saying they just can't face their tests in the wake of the grand jury decisions in Missouri and New York.
A "trauma specialist" will also meet with students at the campus this week. The University of California-Irvine offered students a similar counseling last week to help with "healing, grieving and support."

In addition to Columbia, law school students at Harvard and Georgetown are apparently equally dismayed by the non-indictments and are reportedly asking for similar accommodations

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/12/09/columbia-law-students-get-exams-delayed-to-deal-with-trauma-ferguson-garner/

Ha ha and the kicker: the University's who are allowing this are responding to demands of tuition paying parents. That's right, Mothers are writing to Law school Deans on behalf of their uhhmm. 24 year old...

[Anonymous]

Look I'm as conservative as they come but there has to be more going on here than simply a display of end stage liberalism? Please someone explain. Whats the reality behind this. If this is what our best and brightest have to offer, we really are doomed...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm as conservative as they come but there has to be more going on here than simply a display of end stage liberalism? Please someone explain. Whats the reality behind this. If this is what our best and brightest have to offer, we really are doomed...

Sure. You are a black law student at a top university like Harvard. You are busting your ass convinced that if you keep working hard, success is around the corner. Then a series of events happens that convinces you that no matter what you do, the world still views you as inferior. Specifically, the legal system you are striving so hard to enter is letting you down. It could make any young adult despondent.

[Anonymous]

No, they just want to have the extra time to use as reading period before exams so the Harvard students are piling on to ask for it because the Columbia students got it. And if i were a parent, I would be writing Dean Minnow at HLS and encouraging her to do the opposite - there's no rationale for delaying exams. HLS was tough when I was there and for a good reason. Your clients aren't going to take this shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm as conservative as they come but there has to be more going on here than simply a display of end stage liberalism? Please someone explain. Whats the reality behind this. If this is what our best and brightest have to offer, we really are doomed...

Sure. You are a black law student at a top university like Harvard. You are busting your ass convinced that if you keep working hard, success is around the corner. Then a series of events happens that convinces you that no matter what you do, the world still views you as inferior. Specifically, the legal system you are striving so hard to enter is letting you down. It could make any young adult despondent.

Gotta tell you? This would simply make me stronger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Look I'm as conservative as they come but there has to be more going on here than simply a display of end stage liberalism? Please someone explain. Whats the reality behind this. If this is what our best and brightest have to offer, we really are doomed...

Sure. You are a black law student at a top university like Harvard. You are busting your ass convinced that if you keep working hard, success is around the corner. Then a series of events happens that convinces you that no matter what you do, the world still views you as inferior. Specifically, the legal system you are striving so hard to enter is letting you down. It could make any young adult despondent.

Gotta tell you? This would simply make me stronger.

No kidding. I would want to hire the law student who fights back, not one who cowers in the face of trauma.