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#WhyDisabledPeopleDropOut a thread about things that made me nearly drop out as a disabled person in STEM (please RT):
1. Classrooms aren't accessible-ever.
2. We are left out of learning interventions and conversations about active learning, despite being a group that needs it most.
3. College degrees for many of us don't provide us with greater likelihood of attaining employment.
2. We are left out of learning interventions and conversations about active learning, despite being a group that needs it most.
3. College degrees for many of us don't provide us with greater likelihood of attaining employment.
4. We are still much more likely to end up homeless, even after attaining a college degree. It is not an equalizer for us.
5. Even scientists close to equity efforts just didn't respond to emails about career development when I would tell them I was worried about being homeless.
5. Even scientists close to equity efforts just didn't respond to emails about career development when I would tell them I was worried about being homeless.
6. We literally aren't allowed in many lab spaces.
7. We are seen as not only less capable, but less worth diversity efforts, which often exclude us completely.
8. Conversations about equity also exclude us, despite dismal outcomes.
9. Administrators & faculty view discrimination
7. We are seen as not only less capable, but less worth diversity efforts, which often exclude us completely.
8. Conversations about equity also exclude us, despite dismal outcomes.
9. Administrators & faculty view discrimination
against disabled students as permissible.
10. We get left behind and people that support diversity efforts for others allow it to happen.
11. Testing contracts don't get honored in disability resource centers
12. Professors illegally refuse accommodations
13. ADA has damage caps
10. We get left behind and people that support diversity efforts for others allow it to happen.
11. Testing contracts don't get honored in disability resource centers
12. Professors illegally refuse accommodations
13. ADA has damage caps
so we have to be rich to sue or go without them
14. Less likely to graduate and number of disabled scientists w PhDs is estimated to be around 3% (although I think this is generous).
15. Rotating out of labs and not getting to even attempt a PhD is a huge issue
14. Less likely to graduate and number of disabled scientists w PhDs is estimated to be around 3% (although I think this is generous).
15. Rotating out of labs and not getting to even attempt a PhD is a huge issue
16. Professors frequently and openly make abhorrent comments about the worth of disabled students because academia considers it acceptable and permissible.
