A few days ago, we told you about Georgetown Law, and how the school refused a reasonable accommodation for a pregnant student who is due to give birth during exams. The student's professor and her classmates approved of the accommodation, but the school -- or someone in the school's administration -- said no.
Why? Because it would be 'inequitable' to 'non-birthing students.'
Classmates rallied around the student and sent a petition to the administration.
They have now granted the accommodation:
UPDATE: The Hoya reports that the pregnant Georgetown Law student has been accommodated.
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) November 23, 2024
The article also notes that the professor had originally granted an accommodation but the university rejected it. https://t.co/2lFEtEmfJj pic.twitter.com/psAfrrCowz
After initially denying a pregnant student accommodation for her final exams and facing backlash from students, Georgetown University Law Center (GULC) reached an agreement with the student on her accommodations.
Brittany Lovely (LAW ’26) is due to give birth to her first child within the first two weeks of December, which includes the law school’s final exam period, but has an in-person final exam scheduled for Dec. 13. Though Lovely’s professor approved a request to either take the exam early or take it from home so could care for her child, the university initially denied it and said it would be inequitable to other students in her class.
Law students began a petition in support of Lovely Nov. 21, urging the law school to grant Lovely necessary accommodations, before a university spokesperson said in a statement in the evening of Nov. 22 that law school officials had reached an agreement with Lovely.
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But there's a catch: the school is only giving Lovey a one-time accommodation.
Lovey wants a policy change.
They offered a one time exemption which helps Brittany Lovely but not the next mom, so Lovely is still petitioning for a permanent policy change: https://t.co/G2ZNx3rph3
— Leah Libresco Sargeant (@LeahLibresco) November 24, 2024
There needs to be a permanent change.
The University did not reject it…that’s cover. Who rejected it? Was it one person? A committee? This should be told. Ridiculous move by Georgetown on their initial decision.
— John Murphy (@JohnMurphySC) November 23, 2024
This writer is willing to speculate the person who did is 1) a woman and 2) childless.
Ridiculous that it had to come with that.
— Trish “the Dish” Jones (@the_trishdish) November 23, 2024
Because you know the law school brags about how many female students they have and how many go on to be employed
While putting hurdles in the way.
Progressive left are all talk. This was a gimmee and they screwed it up because of fake intersectionality view.
— rick stanfield (@rockytfs) November 23, 2024
As this writer and others said in the original piece, if Lovely were asking for an accommodation because she had an abortion, the school would have approved it.
You can see how universities are so full of people who hate the idea of families and children that this type of behavior could happen. No normal place with normal people in America would have acted as the school has. Only reversed because of universal condemnation & fear of Trump
— RavenNole 🇺🇸 🇮🇱🎗️ (@RavenNole) November 23, 2024
No lies detected.
Admins. Admins are the problem. https://t.co/AS4sJxPeZP
— Avi Woolf, Wilderness Conservative🐺 (@AviWoolf) November 23, 2024
YUP.
The problem was not the educator but the administration.
— Agathatopian (@MagisFuturum) November 23, 2024
Most universities need what X got & government may get some of 🤞 https://t.co/1X5eAN1pTm
They sure do.
Thoughts and prayers to the Secretary at the next faculty senate meeting. https://t.co/14D89uEXaK pic.twitter.com/n8IsbCLMem
— Brandon Podgorski (@Professor_Pod) November 23, 2024
Okay, this made us chuckle.
lol. Imagine creating a compliance bureaucracy and then hiring all woke, leftists to staff it. https://t.co/cM6BqJ7Zzi
— NewYorkLibertarian (@NYLibertariann) November 23, 2024
What a nightmare.
But all self-inflicted.
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