Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
Posted on 05/25/2018 5:22:22 AM PDT by reaganaut1
As many as one in four students at some elite U.S. colleges are now classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety, entitling them to a widening array of special accommodations like longer time to take exams.
Under federal law, students can be considered disabled if they have a note from a doctor. That label requires schools to offer accommodations depending on the student’s needs. A blind student, for example, would have access to specialized software or a reader for an exam.
The rise in disability notes for mental-health issues has led to a surge in the number of students who take their exams in low-distraction testing centers, are allowed to get up and walk around during class or bring a comfort animal to school, among other measures.
“At Pomona, we have extremely talented bright students with very high expectations who are coming in with a good level of anxiety and are highly stressed,” says Jan Collins-Eaglin, the Claremont, Calif., college’s associate dean of students for personal success and wellness. “Our job here is to help them really thrive.”
At Pomona, 22% of students were considered disabled this year, up from 5% in 2014. Other elite schools have also seen a startling jump in disabilities, according to data from the federal government and from the schools. At Hampshire, Amherst and Smith colleges in Massachusetts and Yeshiva University in New York, one in five students are classified as disabled. At Oberlin College in Ohio, it is one in four. At Marlboro College in Vermont, it is one in three.
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The psychiatric fraud industry marches on. For.a few bucks a shrink will find a “disability” for you too. All you have to do is agree to take some drug that will make you want to kill a bunch of people or hang yourself.
LOL! Snowflakes. Ya gotta love ‘em. Most “college students” have mental issues but we already knew that. Loonies running the asylums.
As many as one in two “students” in college today wouldn’t pass a 1920s high school competency exam.
Thanks to the liberal arts departments throwing their standards into the street, taking bodacious Obamas on them, then allowing them to rot in the sun, their degrees are worth somewhat less than a MSM journalist.
A jump from 5% to 22% in the proportion of disabled students in a few years looks fishy.
It is kind of fishy. As the number of people in the 18-25 demographic declines, colleges need to make up the difference somehow to stay afloat. One way to do that is to start admitting “marginal” students. I had one college administrator tell me that the average IQ levels for students are dropping like a rock; students with IQs in 80s and even 70s are being admitted. Also, more colleges are dropping the SAT as a requirement.
Are these student more likely to succeed? No. But as long as their $$ is green, they are “welcomed”. The college only cares if it gets paid; not if these kids drop out and are stuck with massive debt.
There is an elephant in the room that no one is willing to talk about.
I think its Ritalin, and pharmaceutical dope that is over prescribed. Too much screen time, no PE, no music programs, very poor nutritional choices, and a host of other stuff. But at the top of my list is Ritalin.
The education system before higher ed are producing idiots. They are pushing them through the system fudging the numbers to look good and get continued funding. Now they are in college and now we are hearing college will do the same but this time parents will pay enormous amounts of money for a piece of paper and a son or daughter with an empty head. The system now including higher ed consider themselves mental health specialists who will cure the mentally ill by inclusiveness and medication, This works well and we see it in the many school shooting suspects
Professor Charles W. Kingsfield Jr.
We just used to play basketball to relieve any “stress” of finals.
“....A jump from 5% to 22% in the proportion of disabled students in a few years looks fishy...”
It gives a new broader meaning to the term: “Educated Idiot”.
I just attended my son’s college graduation from an engineering school. The only disability I saw was in a wheelchair.
They have actual expectations there. One of the students in a senior group project he was on was repeatedly cheating. After trying to get this kid to straighten out, my son and the other group member reported him to the professor. He thinks they may have expelled him as a senior.
“At Pomona, we have extremely talented bright students with very high expectations who are coming in with a good level of anxiety and are highly stressed,” says Jan Collins-Eaglin, the Claremont, Calif., college’s associate dean of students for personal success and wellness. “Our job here is to create more disabled for my staff so my budget and staff and job security and self-importance and control and influence continue to increase until EVERY student is a disabled student under my budget!”
Ritalin definitely. Aderol might have taken its place, dunno. Lots of different ones out there, but the gkal is the same.
It’s when they get off the meds—that’s when they go bonkers. The first 6 months to a year after stopping.
The majority of the drugged kids are white boys. They’re on them for years. The goal is to put them in a stuper until they turn 18.
As a professor, this really pissed me off.
Students would get diagnosed we with test anxiety so that they would have unlimited time to take my exam in the remedial center while the remainder of the class had to finish with time limitations.
I noticed that psychology students were the worst, or highest percentage of disorders.
I noticed that psychology students were the worst, or highest percentage of disorders.
It’s all about harvesting them for their student loans and burying them under a mountain of debt so they can never afford to have families and procreate.
“I noticed that psychology students were the worst, or highest percentage of disorders.”
At my wife’s MSW graduation, she commented about the Graduate School of Social Work, “It’s a support group for introverts.”
>> are now classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety
So are they going to be denied concealed carry permits?
Will they be refused certain high stress or high risk jobs?
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