What a jerk. Good thing they tossed his dumb butt out, and made way for students actually interested in doing the work.

Isn’t ANY standard by which you dismiss a student arbitrary? Somebody, somewhere, wrote a rule and that’s the rule and it’s arbitrary almost by definition. But if it’s applied consistently and is reasonable and justifiable, not capricious, then the student doesn’t have much chance.

I’d just love to see him explain some day to a judge why it shouldn’t matter that he filed his court papers late, they should be considered anyway in order to accommodate his disability. Would that work?

It *is* reasonable that he give notice that he will need the accommodation — the instructor has to make arrangements for him to have undisturbed extra time. That may mean finding a different room for the test (one that does not have another class coming in right afterwards, for instance), or a separate room and a proctor for the individual needing accommodation. Universities are not full of empty rooms during class time; it can take some weeks to get it arranged. He certainly was not “thrown under the bus.” He was given ample notice. While I do understand that ADHD means one has executive functioning problems, it is the student’s responsibility to (as a student and as an *adult*) learn to compensate for that problem. BTW, I have a child with a serious illness and a visual disability. That means he gets accommodations (seated up front, writing on board has to be large enough and high contrast, etc.), but it doesn’t mean he gets to avoid doing the work. He has to learn how to compensate. And he’s responsible for copying his homework assgt, making sure he can actually read it, etc. I think if a 9-year-old can manage that kind of responsibility, an adult can manage to get his accommodation requests in on time. Particularly an adult who’s managed well enough to get himself into law school.

Anyone who hasn’t read the case in full should so as to understand what actually occurred. The student fully admitted to the school and court that he did not prepare properly.

To Steve: you say the student was thrown under the bus. However, as the case states, the student actually did better without the accommodations for the tests so in fact if he had used them for every test without having had to ask, his GPA would probably have been even lower. There was also involvement by one of the school’s counselor’s who also has ADHD (diagnosed in the 6th grade) and was successful in fulfilling all the requirements to become a lawyer. So tell me…just where does the wheel of the bus hit in this case?