Opinion: The real victims of the college admissions scams are people with disabilities
Journalists wait outside the Edward R. Roybal Center and Federal Building in Los Angeles on Tuesday for people facing a hearing about the college admissions bribery scandal. By Rebecca Cokley March 14 at 3:23 PM Rebecca Cokley is the director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for American Progress.
If true, this scheme was particularly ugly because of the way it co-opted the rights of disabled students who have fought for equal access to education for decades. In most other circumstances, disability is stigmatized. But the parents named in the indictment are accused of quite literally paying for such a label, though in some cases, they apparently sought to conceal the scheme from their children.
And for students without hundreds of thousands of dollars to allegedly buy these accommodations, permission to take exams under these conditions is not simply handed out like a hall pass; students are required to provide documentation of the need for these services. A diagnosis must fit the IDEA definition of a condition that “may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations” to be eligible.
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