Pleasant Hill, Calif.: “John F. Kennedy University this week removed a garden that had been at issue in a disabled-access lawsuit, stunning students and instructors who had raised thousands of dollars to fix the problem.” A graduate student had sued over lack of wheelchair access to the garden, which was used by about 60 students a year; the estimated cost of accessibility fixes was $56,000. [San Jose Mercury-News]
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For that amount of money, you could have given every disabled kid who wanted the visit the garden an all expense-paid luxury vacation with a first-class ticket to London to see Kew Gardens.
I can’t think of any policy better designed to make people develop resentment towards the disabled than the policy of depriving able-bodied people of things because it is not cost-effective to accommodate the disabled.
Excellent lesson given by the university: lawsuits often have unintended consequences. I would have closed the garden too.
This unfortunately lends credence to the old saying:
Those who can do, those who can’t teach and those who can’t even teach become administrators.
There is a John F. Kennedy University? Who knew?