Posted on 05/13/2015 6:47:41 AM PDT by rightistight
A Misericordia University nursing student has filed a federal lawsuit after failing the same class twice. The course is Functional Health Patterns of Adults IV, which is required for nursing students at Misericordia.
Jennifer Burbella took action after she did not pass her final exam, claiming the professor did not help her enough. According to Burbella, during the course of the final exam, she cried “more than once” because she was not being helped by the professor.
She was allowed extra time, however, in a “distraction-free environment.” But, according to Burbella, that was not sufficient. During the course of the test, Burbella repeatedly called her professor on a cell phone, but the professor did not answer. She blames her failure on the exam on that.
Burbella states that she suffers from anxiety because of “social and academic challenges.” Her lawyer, Harry P. McGrath, argues that his client “suffers from anxiety, depression, and poor concentration.” For this reason, Burbella was twice not able to obtain the required “C” to pass the class.
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All the qualities one wants in a nurse.
Yeah. That’s who I want nursing on me. Someone who can’t find the vein without her professor right there.
Yep, if she becomes a nurse, she’ll be the one stealing the morphine from the dying patients.
Wonder what the lawyer who took the case said he/she could do?
According to Burbella, during the course of the final exam, she cried “more than once” because she was not being helped by the professor.
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Poor baby snowflake. That mean professor (probably one of them racist white men, dontcha know) should have handed her an A right then and there.
So her inherent defects mean she is owed $75,000?
Awww. Poor Jennifer. So what if she’s too much of a dummy to pass the class? Her feelings have been hurt and that’s all that matters. She should get an “A” to help build her self-esteem.
Cosmetology might be a better vocational objective.
Sounds like “Womyn Studies” is her major.
Easy 4.0.
No brains required.
And...added bonus...she can become a Harvard “Professor”.
Ahh, but those “qualities” have rendered her “disabled”.
She’s suing - and will probably win - on the basis of her disability.
Since when can you make phone calls during a final? And why does she think the professor was required to help her pass the final? When I went to college, if you even talked to your neighbor during a test, you got a failing grade. And if you had any questions for the professor, you’d better have gotten them answered before the test began, because once it started, you were on your own. The only exception might have been if the question was poorly worded or you didn’t understand what was being asked.
I don’t want her cutting my hair either...
I haven’t taken a college course in quite some time.... But I never recalled being able to call the professor for help during the exam...
Is this something new?
“Wonder what the lawyer who took the case said he/she could do?”
Take 33% of the settlement.
Yeah I want an anxious, depressed nurse who cannot concentrate to treat me and my family. Sure. Why not?
Maybe interior design might be a better life choice. :-)
Solution. Next semester only take 1 class and work your butt off to pass it.
And this is a perfect example of why the attitude prevalent among university administrators that treats students as “customers” is the destruction of education, particularly when it is absorbed by the students.
The customer is always right. The student is often wrong and occasionally so irremediably wrong that they can’t be set right by taking the course a second time. The dynamics of a university don’t fit into the mold of commerce: students are in some ways more like a raw material, in others more like customers, in yet others more like junior employees.
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