How do you explain that because she was born with a reading disability that will never go away, she will struggle greatly to complete the assigned work?
How do you explain that although there are disability services, because she is now in college, her protections have switched from IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) which provide for curriculum modifications to meet her needs to ADA (Adults with Disabilities Act) that only provide her with accommodations?
How do you explain that she will now have to take out loans because she lost her scholarship that required she take a full load despite her Dyslexia and reading six books in one class and needed to take two more to be considered a full-time student is what will be expected of her, despite her disability, in order to maintain her scholarship and graduate?
How do you encourage to her to go on when she is homeless again?
When she is jobless again?
When she is self-harming again?
When she is suicidal again?
As an educator, how am I supposed to push college into students when they don't have the money for the application to apply for college?
How am I supposed to push college onto students that will not be supported with their disabilities (modifications) while in college?
How do you explain to the general population that accommodations and modifications do not reduce rigor?
How is it fair that a student who wants to go to college more than anything and loves school faces every odd possible while thousands of students drink college educations away on someone else's dime?
How can someone 'make her life better' and break cycles of poverty when that path is not accessible for her?
When will the colleges be held accountable? When will true support be offered? When will alternative curriculums be offered to meet individual needs?
When?
