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From: Marija
Date: 10/18/03
Time: 12:56:57 PM
Remote Name: 195.29.99.134
Hello, Edwin! I read your paper with my brain plugged in so much that my head heated up - I wanted to absorb and remember every right I have. On my threaded discussion just a few papers above yours I have shared an injustice done to me because of my stuttering. Now I see I should have put it here, so I'll copy-paste it. From what I've learned from you, my rights were broken? Here's my case:
"My English exam in college was oral. We entered the professor's cabinet two by two. I sat down with my colleague by me. I told the professor that I stutter but that I'd just gotten back from the US where I'd attended a regular American school (meaning that I'm good at it). She nodded her head and said that I start reading. It was pretty bad. The other colleague read ater me. The professor asked us both some questions, where my colleague once answered with "yes, she do". At the end of the exam I was given a C and my colleague was given a B. I protested, saying that I even dream in English sometimes, and that I'd attended a creative writing class in the US and wrote for the school newspaper... she wouldn't listen. She said "From what I've heard I cannot give you more." "But I stutter!!!", I yelled as she was saying "next". I thought of going to the dean and filing a complaint, but didn't... I left the grade there so I can show everybody "see, my English is terrible, I got a C in college!". Was this molesting?"
Another instance happened to me very recently; after I've announced to my boss that I'm looking for a new job, he went overboard and said: "I've taken you from the street, stuttering and all, and this is how you repay me? You won't be able to find work anywhere else. You'd have to work for me another 20 years to repay me for taking you so stuttering off the street."
What should I have done after those two instances? Who to complain to?