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My school has just placed a highly punitive zero tolerance policy on attendance. My ADHD ass is looking at getting kicked out for being about three minutes late four times this month. I am going in to talk to them about how I am pretty sure ADA reasonable accommodations include letting me be <5 minutes late a few times without getting kicked out. This is gonna suck. Since I don't think the people who would invent this policy are people who are reasonable to work with.
Are you in high school or college? There's definitely an office to talk to in college.
Community college level kinda. It is city trade school program. So it is government and the assumption would be it is college level as any other program of this type would be at a community college.
Attendance taking post-high school is such fuckery. It's your money you're wasting if you don't go to class. And it's indicative of a shitty teacher if people don't show up and still pass. Being late? Who gives a shit?
(You shouldn't skip class but things happen during university).
The policy is if you are late you are sent home. If you miss enough class you are kicked out if the unit. This is upsetting to me as I am not very late. I am changing adhd meds right now so I am having a rather severe difficulty in being perfectly one time. I am getting am A in the class.
That sounds unreasonable to me. None of my classes at four-year university ever did that. Even the ones that mandated attendance wouldn't kick you out for being late even if there was some kind of other penalty.
Yeah, it is extremely unreasonable. In the way of cowardice I am close enough to the end of the program I don't want to make waves. When I talked to the boss about getting reasonable accommodations she said she is stressing because >50% of the class isn't making their arbitrary standard. I told her that means that is a policy that doesn't work for our student population and she said something incomprehensible about it being clearly set out in the student handbook. I can't tell of she just lacks cognitive flexibility or she is not equipped to handle the responsibility of her station. It is just weird vibes.
I imagine the policy actually provides perverse incentives to not attend. Oh, there was a traffic delay so I'm going to be 5 minutes late? Welp, guess I'm skipping class today. Since I can't possibly make it on time, why even try to show up?
Indeed it is extremely poorly thought out.
I have no idea who you'd need to talk to since it sounds like a smaller program. But generally post high school level you can get more accommodations but you need to reach out and keep contacting people.
I have a meeting with the program director about the invoking ADA right to get scheduling flexibility. I am just not optimistic about how it will go.
The important thing is to not take no for an answer. Keep pushing. You don't need to be confrontational, but persistence works.
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