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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]+1 Professors are not teachers: they are academics whose primary focus is/should be their own writing/research (there is a big difference between "teaching" and "professing"). It is insulting to a a professor to expect him/her to be "be on top of" students who can't complete work on their own accord. University is not Romper Room or high school, and not everyone belongs at a university. Professors should not be expected to devote time to "staying on top of" Special Education students. The very idea is absurd. Do you also expect your child's employer to "stay on top of" your kid to ensure that he/she "keeps up with" tasks at work after college?

+2 it's counterproductive to hope for a professor to be on top of a student about their work. I would hope you would want your child to be a responsible employee and having their hand held in college is not going to do that. I have a friend from school that had a crap load of accomadations in place. He did fine but after graduation he could not keep a job. He graduated grad school in 2009 and has had 15 jobs. Been fired from every single one.[/quote]

+3.    It's time to take off the training wheels when you're in college.

If for no other reason than that I, as an employer, want to see an [b]accurate [/b]reflection of your abilities when I look at your application profile.   If I'm intrigued by your 3.5, I also need to know if you were able to achieve that because you were given 150% more time to complete assignments and your instructors were required to limit the number of assignments they gave you and your teachers were forced to have mandatory explanatory meetings after class, for as long as you needed.

Because you know what?  I'm not going to give you 150% more time to get stuff done than I give to your coworkers.   I'm not going to minimize the number of projects you're assigned, and I'm sure as hell not going to stay late at the office or be available by phone to teach you our division's objectives in a way that is most digestible to you. [/quote]

Do you allow your employees the use of a calculator?  Do you have at least one other person review work before it is sent to a client? Do you allow your employees to use a PC/laptop with Word or other similar program?  Do you allow your employees to bring in a desk chair (at their own expense) that is better for them?   Those are the types of accomodations my DC needs in school.

If your require your employees to analyze the hidden meaning in various fictional works, then my DC will not be working for you.  Otherwise, who knows. [/quote]

+10!  Same here. My child can do all technical things. (Math, science, programming). But terrible with social studies and writing. I am sure he will eventually become a great engineer, who would not need any accommodations (he can do e-mails and power points quite well).  By the way, in all real research places, there is a technical writer who is not real scientist, but who correct scientists' writing and make sure that their proposals are "readable."[/quote]

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