A teacher at my last job complained about not having accommodations for himself and I'm like YES ✊🏿 and then he went on to say that there are no accommodations in real life so students shouldn't get them 🤡 - ThreadSky

pwr2dppl.bsky.social • 5 days ago

A teacher at my last job complained about not having accommodations for himself and I'm like YES ✊🏿 and then he went on to say that there are no accommodations in real life so students shouldn't get them 🤡

Reposted from Peter Keep

Today I heard someone say, apparently in good faith, that faculty nation-wide have reported much higher levels of stress, depression, and dissatisfaction in their jobs lately and the distressing part is that they linked this (partly) to the increase in student accommodations. 🧵

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angietheoptimus.bsky.social•5 days ago

I knew many faculty who had this same belief, that there are no accommodations in “real life.” Really? It’s like they’d never heard of the ADA, a law requiring accommodations.

Sadly, the profs most adamant about NOT providing accommodations were the ones who could have used them themselves.

pwr2dppl.bsky.social•5 days ago

I was fired (for) trying to get ADA accommodations so in that case he wasn't wrong 😭

angietheoptimus.bsky.social•5 days ago

That’s so wrong, I am sorry. If anything, we should be extending more accommodations to students and faculty across the board. Learning about Universal Design, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) really radicalized me — wish more educators were exposed to it.

gregoryaight.bsky.social•5 days ago

There is a disabled head of disability services at a Western PA university that everybody knows who feels this way about all accommodations related to neurodivergence, and treats folks as such. (Ii.e. lazy, etc.)

gregoryaight.bsky.social•5 days ago

Our local community college will not give extended time for assignments for any contributions that are not "physical."

mathprofpeter.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hello excuse me while I go scream

gregoryaight.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mostly, local universities, colleges, and training sites have been... okay.

It's always a sludge to illuminate the importance of individualized accommodations even though most places have systems where you get what they give rather than what you need.

We're advocating daily.

gregoryaight.bsky.social•5 days ago

Apparently, they are taking all disability cues/policies from a single company that creates disability protocols. I think. Still trying to figure that out. And the actual counselors don't all seem to have the same information or insight.

mathprofpeter.bsky.social•5 days ago

"There are no accommodations in real life" should only ever be met with (1) THERE SHOULD BE and (2) why would we want to make school mirror "real life" at all???? "Real life" has consistently proven to not be a context where learning is even an established goal!

rhymeswithspecimen.bsky.social•5 days ago

also like. school is real life!! what are we doing here!

mathprofpeter.bsky.social•5 days ago

Doubly hilarious (the not funny kind) that this is often said by people who have gone to graduate school, sometimes more than once, and then decided to stay in school and work there. Like, school is your whole life, how can it not be real life?

fidelioscabinet.bsky.social•5 days ago

“No accommodations in real life”?

Then why does my driver’s license state I need to wear my glasses to drive? Does the state of Tennessee consider that a fashion statement?

averygoodyear.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's also just not true? They're not always formalized as such, but "hey, I have trouble with X for Y reason, is there any way someone else could do Y and I'll do Z instead" is definitely a thing that happens in workplaces

pwr2dppl.bsky.social•5 days ago

I considered saying that but I think being allowed to be human is not the same as accommodations for disability. I was given help but not support. If you keep being assigned X despite Y, for example, it doesn't matter if you can keep getting out of it.

averygoodyear.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's a good point, and well-made.

evodynamics.bsky.social•5 days ago

Way to almost get the point!

Also, there are plenty of accommodations in real life, it's just that not everyone gets them

pwr2dppl.bsky.social•5 days ago

It was sad bc I think he had ADHD and actually struggled with having to juggle student accommodations 😭😭😭

pwr2dppl.bsky.social•5 days ago

I'm like 1) we deserve accommodations??? 2) we have waaay more leeway to be imperfect than students here 3) *incoherent internal screaming*

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