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Originally Posted by Dionysus
If a GLO denies a disabled student's rights (granted by the disability office), that could get them in trouble. They won't get thrown in jail of course, but it could get them a civil suit.
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I don't see any such suit being successful.
In any event, as you've described it, it's not discrimination based on disability. No organization would be saying "we're not taking her because she's got this disability." They're not taking her because she doesn't meet academic qualifications. As others have noted, if there really is a disability requiring accommodation, then that should already have been taken into account by the school.
Not all standards = discrimination.
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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum
basically it's a way for them to say "something is wrong with you, so we don't want you in" that's what discrimination is.
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No, that is
not what discrimination is. Discrimination is "treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit." (Thanks,
dictionary.com.)
A GPA is without question individual merit and has nothing to do with "the group, class, or category to which that person . . . belongs."
I'm sorry, but I think it's just plain silly to suggest that having a GPA requirement is merely to keep people with learning disabilities out of sororities. That doesn't even pass the straight face test.