Student Sues Princeton Over Learning Disability Accommodations

Consolation
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:21:08 +0000

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The idea of everyone getting extra time is appealing to me. However, it is probably exactly that slippery slope that elite colleges want to avoid. Allowing everyone to have extra time would compromise the standards of the program, which is one of the two things the ADA says a college should not have to do (the other being suffering administrative/financial burdens). Granting extra time to any student makes a chink in the wall of their standards, and it is not surprising that a college would resist. But the reality is that, as these things are clarified in the law, I think that certain standardized protocols will evolve, that will both protect individual students and protect the colleges’ programs./quote]

It seems worth repeating that Princeton DOES grant extra time to students. Some students who have commented on the Daily Princetonian article have made it clear that they receive this accommodation, and that they feel supported by the department and individual cited in the lawsuit.

Precisely why P did not offer this accommodation to the student in question is unknown to us at this time.