Speaking as a law student, I think the ABA needs serious and DEEP reform. Law school has become obscenely expensive, and increasingly classist. It is not flexible or learning disabled friendly, many professors are horrible and hide behind tenure and there is no requirement for teachers to have any law experience, and the attendance requirement are unjustly punitive to EVERYONE who exists on Planet Earth. Say you get into a car accident, and end up in the hospital for two weeks. That's four classes right there. Who cares if that was just you know...not anyone's fault? If Dungeonwriter Law school existed, I'd be in favor of attendance policies being on a case by case basis, and perhaps providing two make up sessions a month. I do not think it's that much effort to ask teachers to do three extra hours a month (or less, as needed) for students to catch up.
So let's say there are 28 sessions and you have an ABA requirement of 4 sessions mandatory. (meaning 24) Dungeonwriter Law mandates eight make up sessions. (Two per month) So if you're absent seven times (21 classes), but attend the make up 3 make up classes (made to be flexible and those to be held online but only for good reason. Chronic or sudden illness, family emergency, we're all adults here, we can act like it) you are fine. In fact, you can miss up to eight sessions and as long as you have good cause, you're fine. In emergency cases, the 8 can be extended to 10 or 12, but that provides a cushion without unduly burdening the teacher. An extra 24 hours a year at most is not that much of an undue burden and teachers can share the burden.
(for example, all the Criminal law teachers alternate months, since there are usually three at each school, we're asking for an extra 8 hours a year at most. In a 30 week school year, not counting vacations, we're asking for an extra 16 minutes a week from teachers)
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Date: 2010-07-08 08:11 pm (UTC)So let's say there are 28 sessions and you have an ABA requirement of 4 sessions mandatory. (meaning 24) Dungeonwriter Law mandates eight make up sessions. (Two per month) So if you're absent seven times (21 classes), but attend the make up 3 make up classes (made to be flexible and those to be held online but only for good reason. Chronic or sudden illness, family emergency, we're all adults here, we can act like it) you are fine. In fact, you can miss up to eight sessions and as long as you have good cause, you're fine. In emergency cases, the 8 can be extended to 10 or 12, but that provides a cushion without unduly burdening the teacher. An extra 24 hours a year at most is not that much of an undue burden and teachers can share the burden.
(for example, all the Criminal law teachers alternate months, since there are usually three at each school, we're asking for an extra 8 hours a year at most. In a 30 week school year, not counting vacations, we're asking for an extra 16 minutes a week from teachers)
But who would listen to me?