I sure hope this young man wins his suit because, as a lad who started college at 15, I find it appalling that as an accepted student Mr. Carlson could be denied access to an academic program in his major. If he's qualified to be a matriculated student, and an HONORS student, to boot, then he's certainly qualified to take advantage of a course and cannot be denied.
(And, when mom says she'll pay her own way to chaperon her son, if that's indeed the reason for denial, then there's really no excuse, at all, but I don't think even that should be required.)
20 March 2010
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Um, this is stupid. It was stupid to start UConn at 9; it's stupid to want to do this at 13; it's stupid to think the mom-as-chaperone thing would work out; it's stupid to file suit over it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe A Certain Someone I know should get retroactive credit--6 credits!--for completing two courses in a study abroad program last winter?
Then, plain and simple, don't accept him as a student to begin with. If A Certain Someone had applied and had been accepted, you betcha he should've gotten 6 credits last winter...which I fully expect him to able to do when he's 9.
ReplyDeleteIf they'd denied him, then I'm sure the litigious parents would've jumped to court *then*.
ReplyDeleteThis sort of thing is why the terrorists hate us.
But what exactly is the lad seeking except to take a class that he is qualified to take?
ReplyDeleteI think "qualified" here is legitimately contestable.
ReplyDelete(I'd also strongly contest the notion that anything going on in that student's life has *anything* to do with what HE is seeking, but whatever. I've never met him.)
I'll grant you your parenthetical point, but "qualified" is not a question in my mind.
ReplyDeleteThere are all sorts of people who are academically eligible to go on courses abroad who aren't allowed to go for this, that, or the other reason.
ReplyDelete"You're only 13" doesn't strike me as wholly inappropriate.
Show an actual pattern of people actually being turned down (I think it's self-selective), and we can talk....
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