After identifying the disabled student, the teacher appoints the student sitting next to her as note-taker. Two sources of Federal law prohibit the public disclosure of the student's disability as described here. The ADA is particularly stringent in requiring that information about a student's disability be disclosed only as absolutely necessary to enable the University to meet its obligations to provide reasonable accommodations. Disabled students who desire accommodations must identify themselves to the Disability Services Office, which facilitates appropriate accommodation arrangements. 3 Students come to class unprepared.
Teacher dismisses the whole class and counts each student absent.
Arguably, all students have a contract with the University to provide a certain amount of education. This practice may prompt an innocent student's claim that dismissing the class breaches his contract with the University. The student who has shown up prepared has kept his part of the bargain, while the University is not doing so. In addition, counting an innocent student absent may give rise to a grade challenge, if the teacher also has a policy that grades are negatively affected by absences. Finally, a professor should consider whether this is a good teaching practice.