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Ridiculous liberalism
Has any blind student even indicated an interest in the course? Has the school offered to provide braille copies or text-to-speech technology? This sounds like a non-problem that people are trying to turn into a problem to advocate a misguided political agenda.

When I was in high school a guy who was a year older and TOTALLY blind since birth wanted to take Biology. The teacher agreed to make clay models of all the relevant diagrams and the guy did quite well. In fact, he decided to major in METEOROLOGY in college! He found a college that gave him a disability scholarship and agreed to make all the models and he actually graduated with a meteorology degree.

GUESS WHAT!? Then he found out about the REAL world. More than a decade later he was STILL trying to find ANYONE who would offer him a job in meteorology. A friend of mine (a fellow law student) said that every 2-3 years this guy would go to the local EEOC office where my friend worked, complaining about employment discrimination. They would just tell him there was nothing they could do, since he would not be able to do the job.
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Ridiculous liberalism  Rick_R | 07/27/09
... really?  dogen83 | 07/28/09
So, since the blind cannot use the Kindle  GuidingLight | 07/28/09
Another in a long line of uninformed rants  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
Liberals  Shrike2012 | 07/28/09
Liberals (purposely offensive)  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
It's not Liberal Vs Conservative  notsofast | 07/29/09
Ridiculous (and typical) uninformed "conservatism"  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  raindog469 | 07/27/09
Rights of authors include specification of the medium  Patanjali | 07/27/09
copyright extremists  Too Old For IT | 07/29/09
Yes, copyright extremists  raindog469 | 08/01/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  gertruded | 07/28/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  mike.farnham@... | 07/28/09
Interesting,  Boot_Agnostic | 07/28/09
Books are far less toxic  zmud | 07/28/09
There really are no repairs available  zmud | 07/28/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  diva109 | 07/28/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  paul@... | 07/28/09
Highligher and Notes on Kindle  lincoln@... | 07/29/09
It doesn't matter if any blind student is affected  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
A Better Idea for a Kindle Textbook Article  mdg1019 | 07/28/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  ryanmc | 07/28/09
As long as the hardcopy is still available  Yagotta B. Kidding | 07/28/09
No arguement is nessesary... the same course is still available to everyone  finitefreedom | 07/28/09
Are you really that obtuse?  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
Lowest Common Denominator  hastypete@... | 07/28/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  thommej | 07/28/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  deowll | 07/28/09
I don't know whether to laugh or cry  dgrainge | 07/28/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  rledick | 07/28/09
Heartless blind folks  sbass@... | 07/29/09
That argument was simply stupid and uninformed.  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
From the actual Suit  keithparks | 07/29/09
Um, no, it's not  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
Braille use declining  keithparks | 07/29/09
tail wagging the dog  Khyron | 07/29/09
Wouldn't they just do what they have always done  brandie.anderson@... | 07/29/09
How do you feed a Kindle through the machine?  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  RichardThor | 07/29/09
Reasonable accommodation?  cynic8 | 07/29/09
THANK YOU  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  pamam@... | 07/29/09
No step up.  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  lincoln@... | 07/29/09
depends on your definition of "minimal"  keithparks | 07/29/09
So which of the students are visually impared?  zclayton3 | 07/29/09
You should read Section 508  keithparks | 07/29/09
Kindle: A visual tool  Joe Avelar | 07/29/09
Way to evince that you have zero understanding of the issue  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  miikomentz | 07/29/09
No libraries?  boxplayer | 07/29/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  bob.luc | 07/29/09
Believing in you  DeusExMachina | 07/29/09
RE: Kindle draws fire at Arizona State  DBHarvey | 07/29/09
Expensive Texts  Too Old For IT | 07/29/09

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