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Georgetown law student challenges school’s response to pregnancy accommodations

www.fox5dc.com Georgetown law student challenges school’s response to pregnancy accommodations

Georgetown University Law Center is facing scrutiny over its handling of a pregnant student’s request for exam accommodations.

Brittany Lovely, a second-year law student, is expecting her first child during the upcoming exam period and sought to take her exams either early or remotely. The university initially denied these requests, citing concerns about fairness among students.

Lovely described the situation as "extremely disrespectful" and felt that the university’s suggestion to bring her newborn to campus during exams so she could breastfeed her baby, with minimal recovery time, was unreasonable and insensitive.

A school leader also allegedly told her, "motherhood is not for the faint of heart."

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Sounds like that school is going to be looking for a new Title IX coordinator and or doing Title IX training. Pretty dumb of the school because the accommodations she was seeking wasn’t unreasonable too.
- Law schools get absolutely stupid about the ritual of exams. Some of that is because every law school class has some ambitious and devious people in it who will try to cheat if they think they can get away with it, but a lot of it is because law is dominated by old assholes with distorted memories about how much they suffered and how hard they had to work back in the day and see it as their duty to inflict that imagined suffering on the next generation.
  
  Ok well pregnancy accommodations is covered by Title IX and any institution receiving federal funds are required to preform yearly Title IX training and have a Title IX coordinator. If you are an instructor and a student tells them they are pregnant the right response is to have the student go to the Title IX coordinator for accommodations. Not say “motherhood is not for the faint of heart.” How I know? I did my Title IX training yesterday, so it’s fresh on my mind.
  
  Sounds a lot like med school, or the lady who sewed to cancel student loan forgiveness. People suck.
- They probably don’t have to worry about out title ix for too much longer…

This is basically failing someone for being pregnant. That's dumb.
Let's make sure this is equitable. Fail any man that conceives a child during law school too.
And actually, let's go full Japan and watch the birth rate plummet when people choose between career or family and end up choosing career for fear of repercussions.
- Nah we'll just make abortions, contraception, and condoms illegal.
- Let's make sure this is equitable. Fail any man that conceives a child during law school too.
  Do you know what equitable means?
  
  Do you?
  Equitable ... 1: having or exhibiting equity : dealing fairly with all concerned...often, specifically : fair in a way that accounts for and attempts to offset disparities in the way people of different races, genders, etc. are treated...
  “Equitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/equitable. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
  
  Do you?

Maybe don't try to have a kid while going to law school, or any higher education for that matter.
- It'd be interesting to study you and find out what went wrong.
  
  Snaps glove ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- This isn't a problem of being pregnant while in law school. This is a problem of someone's Title IX protections being violated. Your comment implies that you think that Brittany Lovely was unwise to continue at law school while pregnant, but it's fairly reasonable to expect a law school to be following the law.
- Why not just say it with your chest and call her a removed?
  That's what you're really implying, yes? How dare she besmirch the dignity of...law school, an institution that historically has only served to preserve the wealth and privilege of landed white men.

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