...and she attends school FOR FREE!!!!!!!!
On those merits alone she should fail.
She should attend the college I teach at in California. The faculty sponsor a Gay-Straight Alliance “Kiss-in” every year.
If this works, I’m sitting on a goldmine!
A lot of people in college these days have no business there, affirmative action and the like have put them in over their heads. Social promotion is the answer I guess. /sarc
LOL. Pass the popcorn on this one. A liberal “victim” clashes with the liberal power structure. The claim is amusing, but I could easily see some prima donna professor awarding a zero class participation out of spite. And I love the “some of my best friends are gay” defense to the laughable claim that the zero was awarded because the student “advocated gay rights.” This is the bizzaro world modern PC Liberalism has brought us too.
Lehigh is one of the most expensive schools around.
Shouldn’t she have to pay tax on the cost (as paid by other students) of her free “education”, just like lottery winners have to pay tax on their free money?
Liberal v. Liberals
Sit back and enjoy the carnage!
Not at all surprised. The most frequent refrain heard from snotty teenagers in well-to-do parts of town is a sneering “My dad’s a lawyer an he’ll SUE your a*s!”
And most of the time, Dad is stupid enough to do it.
(I personally know of a case where the daughter of a lawyer working a part-time retail job was disciplined for refusing to clean the rest room, and her dad sued the company)
A couple things:
1. Schools set themselves up by giving gatekeeper responsibilities to individual instructors making subjective evaluations. In this case, a grade of B being required in a particular course.
It would be better to entrust the gatekeeping function to a collective decision of the faculty. For example, an average of B over six courses, with not more than two C’s. After all, it is the faculty - and not individual members of the faculty - who recommend the conferring of a degree.
2. While the psychology profession has removed homosexuality per se as a personality disorder (because not all homosexuals are incapable of leading productive and happy lives), homosexuality is nevertheless associated with a complex of personality disorders (e.g., narcissism), which can significantly impact professional conduct to include the exercise of professional judgment.
In this case, there may be a reason that this particular course serves as a gatekeeper course going beyond simple mastery of a body of knowledge. There can be, for example, concerns for profession conduct including the exercise of professional judgement, that can only be observed in clinical setting. If this is the case, the institution should consider having a panel of faculty involved in the grading of the course.
3. Were the University ordered to increase the student’s grade, the disability from seeking the career this student has in mind would be lifted, mitigating the loss of future income to the delay in time in seeking the more rewarding career.
That the student’s lawyer erred so badly in his economic loss calculation should dispose the court to dismissing the case out-of-hand. But, I notice this was not what the court has done. Perhaps we are only very preliminary into the court case.
A couple things:
1. Schools set themselves up by giving gatekeeper responsibilities to individual instructors making subjective evaluations. In this case, a grade of B being required in a particular course.
It would be better to entrust the gatekeeping function to a collective decision of the faculty. For example, an average of B over six courses, with not more than two C’s. After all, it is the faculty - and not individual members of the faculty - who recommend the conferring of a degree.
2. While the psychology profession has removed homosexuality per se as a personality disorder (because not all homosexuals are incapable of leading productive and happy lives), homosexuality is nevertheless associated with a complex of personality disorders (e.g., narcissism), which can significantly impact professional conduct to include the exercise of professional judgment.
In this case, there may be a reason that this particular course serves as a gatekeeper course going beyond simple mastery of a body of knowledge. There can be, for example, concerns for profession conduct including the exercise of professional judgement, that can only be observed in clinical setting. If this is the case, the institution should consider having a panel of faculty involved in the grading of the course.
3. Were the University ordered to increase the student’s grade, the disability from seeking the career this student has in mind would be lifted, mitigating the loss of future income to the delay in time in seeking the more rewarding career.
That the student’s lawyer erred so badly in his economic loss calculation should dispose the court to dismissing the case out-of-hand. But, I notice this was not what the court has done. Perhaps we are only very preliminary into the court case.
I work for a college.....and the professors and staff are bigger douches than the students....no kidding. This is also a grad student too....which makes this case much more winnable for her
She lost and per this article her attorney says she won’t appeal.
