In this age and day of electronics he should just revise that policy.
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In this age and day of electronics he should just revise that policy.
And have everyone play solitaire while he's trying to teach?Originally Posted by Androidpk
Oh hell no
No, he should have said, "no one can bring laptops to class except those with letters from AccessAbility allowing them to."
Her confidentiality would have been secured then, don'tcha see??
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No?
Gemstone.
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I identify student accommodations for similar reasons. I wouldn't have said it was "because of a disability" but it'd destroy my class's respect for me if I didn't explain why some students get extra test time, for instance.
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Why didn't I think of that?
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Disadvantage + Advantage does not = Advantage. -1+1 does not equal 1. It equals zero, and balance is restored.
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Extra test time also = bullshit. Not everyone gets to be an astronaut.
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No. Allowing a laptop into a classroom is not coddling. There is a big difference between accomodation and coddling.
The end result is like everyone else. She goes home, reads and rereads (accurate) notes from a lecture until she knows them well enough to apply them to tests of essays. The only difference is in how she records them.
I'm asking what exactly you are suggesting. Those are two options. A third option, one I mentioned as well, is go without the advantage, and risk failing out of a program due to difficulty in note-taking. A fourth is that everyone can have the laptops. However, option 4 is not available to her right now, so her options are fail at life, attempt the course willingly forgoing advantages, or take the advantages she has fought to earn.
Thats fine, as long as you are willing to risk your job. Confidentiality is no joking matter, it has a slew of legal and ethical penalties for violation, including probation, suspension, being fired, and in some rare cases (not this one) jail time. And its there for a reason.
I won't lie and say its not a sticky situation, but one answer is that he doesn't bring it up at all. If someone has the nerve to ask, then he says that there is an arrangement and that he will not go any further. I'm not saying classmates might not get to the bottom of it, but you can't control them and they have no obligation. Its his responsibility as an employee and professor to uphold his end of things. Or as someone else pointed out, cite AccessAbility and go no further. One of the most important rules of breaking confidentiality is that if you DO break it, you only reveal the bare minimum.
There is a fucking sheet of paper I need to find that will explain why its not. I'll try and find it online.
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That's one reason. (also: Bejeweled or Snood!)
Another is that sometimes a laptop just impedes learning. If you don't need a laptop (for example, it is not a note-taking class, or it is a class where the outline is available online, or something else) then having one is unnecessary. But people want to fuck around on the internet. My suggestion has always been to disabled wireless in classrooms, but thus far I am unsuccessful in my attempts.
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