Posted on 11/02/2006 7:17:13 PM PST by SmithL
Oakland -- An Alameda County judge ordered the administrator of the Medical College Admissions Test to overhaul its policies for accommodating people with learning disabilities.
Superior Court Judge Ronald Sabraw issued the order to the Association of American Medical Colleges Tuesday after finding that its policies for disabled test takers violate state civil rights laws.
Sabraw gave the AAMC 60 days to revamp its policies for reviewing requests from people with disabilities and to provide accommodations for the MCAT that could include providing extra time, different test settings or special devices or equipment.
The initial lawsuit, later expanded to cover all disabled test takers in California, was filed in September 2005 by four college graduates with dyslexia and other learning disabilities who were denied extra time to take the MCAT.
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Doctor?
I suggest that the judge(s) who made this ruling MUST go to these affirmative action doctors for their next surgery....
I don't know 'bout y'all, but there's no way I want a 'learning disabled' doctor in charge of my healthcare -- and I don't care if it's only dyslexia.
Don't refer me to any blind surgeons.
Talk about another way to lose confidence in Doctors, just start allowing the impared to treat the unimpared.
Suddenly, Roger Heller jumps out of his business class seat, races up the isle through first class to the cockpit door, turns to face the nervous passengers and shouts:
"This case is really about giving people a fair and equal chance to demonstrate their skills and knowledge,"
What about aspiring blind student pilots...?!
We need to reform government. One reform is to elect judges. That way they will have to show their faces during election campaigns. They will be less inclined to push nutty rulings on the public if they know their faces are well recognized by the public. Ever notice how pictures of judges are not on the Internet. They are hiding. Why?
If I had to guess from my doctor's handwriting...
If you read this it says they must overhaul their methods of giving the test, It dosnt say they must lower the scores or change the test. Anyone with learning disabilities will hardly pass it anyway, pretty ,much a waste of time really. Its a bit like a person in a wheelchair applying to play NBA basketball.
They can apply. Thats about as far as they will get.
When a patient is in a time critical treatment position, you don't get "more time" because you are disabled. You succeed or the patient dies.
Your Honor.
A reply from a long time lurker who has usually agreed with the "freepers." I am a mother of two bright children with learning disabilities. I am absolutely shocked about the lack of education re: learning disabilities. Are you aware that you guys literally have written off Mark Twain, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and many current successful americans including a famous financial guru that I am going to let you guess. Come on guys, don't write these kids off, the public schools have. I need your support.
Absolutely untrue.
I'm not writing anybody off. If they can learn to deal with their learning disabilities in such a fashion that they can pass the MCAT like everyone else, great. The point is that their should be special rules for no one, especially for doctors. Affirmative action (lower standards) in the field of medicine kills people. That's why King Drew Medical Center in L.A. is losing it's credentials--too many people killed by affirmative action doctors.
We're not writing them off. But personally, I know of no special accomodations or special treatment that were ever given to any of the brilliant men on your list.
I totally disagree. My children were in a private school until the private school did not want to deal with their disabilities and I was put into a position of placing them in public school. It was a total nightmare and yes, the public school did write them off. My children went from writing book reports on Lou Gerigh to studying the difference between a rock and a worm. I have found out through research that public schools have a notorious poor track record of dealing with children with a average I.Q. and a learning disability. I have statistical surveys to give you if you are interested. The right to a free and public education exists only for those children for whom the system works.
soon it'll be expanded to blacks and hispanics and women and other 'culturally disadvantaged' people. in other words, non white hetero christian males.
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