There’s always a career in politics to resort to
Crazed Lehigh student Megan Thode sues university for the C+ she received and the subsequent ruination of her life. I understand her complaint: the ADA mandates A’s for all education majors, so what the heck happened here?
What is going on? Here’s an e-mail I just received from my internet provider, Bell Canada, that calls itself Sympatico and has a Homepage called the “Loop”, like in the loop I guess:
Every day, 500,000 Canadians miss work due to a form of mental illness. Not because they’re lazy, not because they enjoy it, because they need help. Let’s end the stigma. On February 12, Bell will donate 5¢ more for initiatives helping the millions of Canadians affected by mental illness for every:
Text message sent*
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Here’s their feature article of the day: ‘Five reasons you shouldn’t be afraid of therapy’ http://www.theloop.ca/living/article/-/a/1484572/Five-reasons-you-shouldn-t-be-afraid-of-therapy They also had an article on why everyone should seek help yesterday, and here’s a long list of recent articles on the same subject from their own website search:http://search.theloop.ca/search?q=mental health&filter=0&access=p&client=default_frontend&output=xml_no_dtd&proxystylesheet=theloop&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF-8&ud=1&exclude_apps=1&site=default_collection
What are they trying to do, get everyone on antidepressants? Wonder if the same kind of push is going on in America?
I was an A student in a cooking school, yet my wife hates my salsiccia, she won’t have nothing to do with it.
This is a good example of why we need loser pays. The House passed it in 1995 (it was part of the Contract with America,) but Clinton threatened a veto, and the Senate never acted on it.
Am I missing something? What does this have to do with ADA?
Having run into a mess myself (different circumstances, but it would have prevented further study in my preferred field), I’m on the fence. Who knows?
The ADA prohibits discrimination against the mentally challenged; by definition, therefore, all education majors are a protected class.
Aaaaaahhhh. Thanks, I never would have gotten that. Lots of educators in the family. . . . Yeah, we need protection.
Yep. “Loser pays” would by itself reduce the amount of litigation in the US by a dramatic amount. There’s _nothing_ like having skin in the game.
Of course you’;d have to have the amount the loser pays subject to some judicial review. Let’s face it, if you bring a (good faith) lawsuit against, say, the government, or some deep pocketed individual/corp, it would be quite unjust to saddle the loser with some larded up accounts where supposedly 17 lawyers at eleventy hundreds of dollars an hour working on this for 8 months… where the initiator had one part time paralegal.
The intent is to painfully discourage the potential suit losers from going in & harassing people legally knowing they might lose and hope to get a payout to go away, not drive honest people to complete destitution because the defenders can put a platoons of legal weasels on the bill.
There is one reason there will never be law suit reform in this country and its called the A.J.A. (f/k/a A.T.L.A.).
Correction: AAJ – Here’s a useful link to where their members’ money goes: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000065&cycle=2012
The case should be thrown out because human development majors will never earn $1.3mm in their lifetime so the case is not based on fact.It is more likely that this person will suck $1.3mm out of government coffers in her pursuit of “helping people”.
In my day a C+ was considered pretty good- that was before grade inflation
“Grade inflation”, in some cases, has been institutionalized. When applying for graduate studies, if you have below a B in a subject relevant to you area of study, you will not be accepted. Now this woman was already in graduate school, so I don’t know why her career was ruined. Some certification thing?
If I can sue for every grade less than a B, I’ll be looking at some places in mid-country VERY soon!
Mandated “As” for education majors would explain my daughter’s social studies teacher.
It explains the sorry state of the country, period.