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.”
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.