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Originally posted by ZetaPhi708
In my research on the "rate my professor" website, I read that he made and/or forced a quadrapalegic take his/her hat off in class. If I had been in that class, I would have probably been restrainted as I would have had to open up a can of verbal "whoop-ass" on this professor for the way he treated a handicapped student. Nothing pisses me off more than discrimination against anyone.
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I don't understand how that is seen as discriminating. He would have been discriminating against the quadraplegic student had he allowed the student to keep his hat on rather than making him take it off. As was said in the previous response, he enforced the policy equally on all students and potentially could have been seen as being unfair had he exempted a student from the policy (on a personal note, I too think it is going a little far to make someone take off a hat when they are going to have obvious difficulty with it, like in that situation. But then again, I think that rule is dumb in the first place...) On that note, I had a high school spanish teacher who would allow girls to wear hats in class, but never guys. She stated it was because "with girls, the hat is part of the outfit. But with boys, hats are just a distraction". As if the huge and often ridiculous hats this lady would wear to class weren't a distraction...
