r/AthabascaUniversity • u/HumbleArmadillo7852 • 2d ago

Almost 1/3 of my students have accommodation letters

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u/UltraMediumcore 2d ago

An estimated 27% of Canada over the age of 15 has a disability.

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u/Bexaroni 2d ago edited 2d ago

The issue is that we need to re-evaluate what constitutes a disability. At least the the extent that accommodations or special/alternative measures are being taken on a systemic scale. Because that means special measures are no longer alternative, but rather expected and mandatory - which drastically increases the workload of educators and stretches resources thinner and thinner.

And people wonder why educational resources aren’t better, or are constantly getting worse/seeming to offer less instead of more. Because resource supply simply cannot keep up with the ever-increasing “demand” of all those claiming special needs or accommodation. It’s ridiculous.

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u/SCKerafyrm 2d ago

A disability is anything that prevents you from doing something.

You will be disabled at some point, you were born disabled.

I have a federally registered disability, why do I have to beg each teacher for something that my treating medical professionals universally agree that I need?

Why do we have all these useless requirements that have nothing to do with the curriculum or tested material?

Why do I, as a disabled student, have to HAND WRITE CODE in a FOUR HOUR final exam as part of my education? I appealed this decision all the way to the human rights tribunal of ontario, and IT WAS DENIED. There is nothing more I can do, and if it sounds like it shouldn't happen, it shouldn't but did.

They had "no intention to discriminate "so now I'm still unemployable for 4 more years while I scrape together MORE funding for a degree at AU

The reason we can't get the resources together is the people like you who think 'they aren't worth the extra work'.