Posted on 06/15/2016 2:10:15 PM PDT by Cecily
A Harvard Law School graduate is suing the New York Board of Law Examiners, blaming her failures to pass the bar exam on the board's refusal to grant accommodations for her disability.
Tamara Wyche eventually passed the bar in 2015, but claims that her legal career had already been damaged by the two prior failures.
Wyche, 29, suffers from debilitating panic attacks and requested that the board allow her to take the exam in a separate room from other test-takers, provide extra time and stop-clock breaks to decrease the stress level, according to the suit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
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Reminds me of a similar case a few years ago. A nursing student sued the state claiming that she couldn’t operate under stress and thus kept failing the gradation tests. She won. My daughter in law and a friend who are both nurse practitioners laughed out loud. “How in the world can she work as a nurse,” they both said.
she’s actually from Baltimore!! (according to the Bates bio)
Hussein and Michael both lost theirs. It was a tragic photoshopcopy accident.
I am forced to give special testing accommodations to a few of my pre-nursing students. I always wonder how they will handle the stress of treating difficult patients as a nurse.
Also, who would want to hire such a lawyer if they knew she suffered panic attacks?
I have several lawyer friends. It is not a profession for the weeks of heart or those who panic.
“I gave her a “B” on her first assignment due to an obvious lack of effort...”
Wow, when I was in fourth grade an “obvious lack of effort” would get you at best a “D”.
That was my exact question. I have a law degree and my dad practiced trial law for decades. Taking the bar in itself is stressful, let alone representing clients.
Doesn’t seem like a good career choice for her. But she can certainly use her degree for some other, less stressful work.
she will be well qualified to work for some sue-happy ambulance chasing law firm, since she knows all about suing for frivolous claims
And anybody with a lick of sense could see this coming when it was passed during the GHWB administration. They still count the ADA as one of their seminal accomplishments for that one-term wonder.
Go to Arkansas, babe. They let anyone who has flunked a northeastern bar exam in.
After watching some of the Watter’s World interviews on ivy league campuses, I’m surprised any company would hire any of those idiots for anything.
Who doesn’t suffer from some big degree of panic attack on a make or break test like that?
Who wouldn’t do better, if less stressed because of having lots of time for the exam and breaks when you want them and in the frequency you want?
I know of a physician specialist who got through all his schooling from elementary school on up because his parents played the accommodation game and made it school policy that he be given lots and lots of time on every test because of his “different learning style, i.e. learning disability.”
Maybe she can get a nice quiet job putting umbrellas into drinks somewhere.
Weak*
Could be worse
She might have been trying to clear the Medical Boards
Imagine someone with a severe panic disorder
Trying to survive a Medical Internship
God Help the patients
What? No safe room?
But, on the bright side, with a law degree she has earned the right to take the BAR exam as many times she wants to till she Eventually passes.
And her law license won’t even say that she had to repeatedly take the exam.
Affirmative Action snowflake who was pampered all the way through Bates College and Harvard Law School.
I’d like to know her LSAT scores and what her “unadjusted” grades would be if she were not coddled all the way through. How many more qualified white, male, and/or Asian students were turned down by Harvard Law in order to give her a slot?
She is going to need coddling in every stage of her professional life, if she can get it.
Isn’t that Obama in wig and pearls (Barackette)?
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