"There are no make-up labs for any reason."

zoeydoggie
Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:55:25 +0000

The school has to provide reasonable accommodations. It doesn’t matter if you discussed certain things and not others, ADA is clear that as things arise they must be addressed. Someone in the disability office knows this. They are the ones who should be advocating for/with you.

I don’t think you should have to hire a lawyer and I don’t think you should have to drop the class. I think the issue is that anyone who misses a lab for any reason doesn’t get to make it up and accommodating you there would give you an unfair advantage (in the prof’s eyes, anyway). They may have a point on that. Are they willing to let everyone drop their lowest lab grade? Usually when they have policies like that there is a way out somewhere. If an able bodied student was deathly ill, with medical documentation, and was not allowed to make up the lab I’m not sure any amount of legal help will let you either.