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E-PrinceA settlement was reached Thursday evening in the lawsuit Diane Metcalf-Leggette ’13 filed last October against the University. The suit challenged administrators’ refusal to accommodate her learning disabilities by granting her extra time on examinations. On Thursday, the University agreed ...(back to the article)
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What strikes me about this whole issue is how unfair it is towards students who can't afford to take legal action against the university. Based on the fact the the university settled, it appears Diane was entitled to her requests. However had her family not been able to afford or had access to top lawyers, she never would have got this.
I wonder how many other students have been discriminated against by the university and couldn't do anything about it because they lacked the financial resources.
metcalf-leggette wasnt ACTUALLY discriminated against by the university. shes just privileged enough to get her way
Probably because she comes from a last-name-hyphenating family...stupid feminists
what a disgusting person and family...get a life and stop expecting handouts in life
We can at least take comfort in knowing that Metcalf's dubious academic qualifications, the very same that prompted her family to sue the University for being too difficult, will, even with 100% extra time, still result in Metcalf receiving dismal marks. Some individuals simply have no place at this University.
On a further note, America needs tort reform.
What horse---! Shame on the university for capitulating--if you cannot do the work in time, you cannot do the work. It makes me sick to my stomach. My guess is 100% extra time won't help this mor--. I hope she is shamed into transferring somewhere else!
Mentally disabled people shouldn't be in college. Just like fat people--fat due to an uncontrollable thyroid problem, say--shouldn't be playing basketball for a living.
ridiculous
wait...but how did diane even get into princeton in the first place?
What is truly distressing is the lack of empathy for or even simple curiosity about the needs of learning disabled students on the part of most students who have commented on this article. The University would not likely have settled if it were in compliance with the law. However privileged Metcalf-Leggette is or is not, the University must have far more resources than a student to pursue this, if it thought it was right and in compliance. I agree that University policy is especially unfair to students who cannot afford to have their learning disabilities diagnosed or sue the University. That's another battle worth fighting. If the suit had gone to trial and the University lost (an outcome that the University probably thought was sufficiently likely to settle instead), it would have benefited not only Metcalf-Leggett but the learning disabled Princeton students who don't have the resources to sue. The reality is that compared to other universities and what is known about learning disabilities scientifically, Princeton looks insensitive, at best, and draconian, at worst in its behind-the-times policies.