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    'Professor tells stuttering student not to speak' (video)

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    Post by Chris Thu Oct 13, 2011 7:59 am

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/10/12/national/main20119117.shtml

    Professor tells stuttering student not to speak
    October 12, 2011 8:39 AM
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    'Professor tells stuttering student not to speak' (video) Philip-garber-jr_fullwidth_244x183
    Philip Garber Jr., a student at a New Jersey community college who stutters, said he was told not to speak in his class. (WCBS-TV)

    RANDOLPH, N.J. - A student at a New Jersey community college who stutters said he was told not to speak in his class, CBS News station WCBS-TV reports.

    Philip Garber Jr., who has been taking classes at the County College of Morris, said the incident made him feel like "stuttering is something to laugh at and that it's not something to take seriously."

    The outspoken 16-year-old has been taking the classes to overcome his stuttering. He said an adjunct professor in a history course told him not to ask questions during class to prevent disrupting the other students.

    "The first feeling was just shock," Garber, an aspiring photojournalist, told WCBS-TV.

    Garber said he was even more shocked when the adjunct professor told him to write out his questions before and after class. That's when the college administration got involved and moved him to a similar course, where he felt more comfortable.

    "He was in fact discriminated against in this class -- that is other students were not asked to make the same accommodation," college President Edward Yaw told WCBS-TV. "So that is something we take seriously."



    Garber has had a stutter all of his life. He has been home-schooled and has gotten speech therapy.

    "I have never experienced this level of discrimination," he told WCBS-TV.

    The adjunct professor was unable to be reached for comment, but many students who are not in the class support the 16-year-old.

    "He paid for his tuition like everybody else did, and it's not fair that he's not allowed to speak in class," student Henny Harmon told WCBS-TV.

    The college wouldn't say if any action was taken against the adjunct professor because officials said they don't discuss personnel matters.
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    Post by CeCe Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:32 am

    That professor should be told to not come back to work.
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    Post by Supernova Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:49 am

    Unfortunately I can't say I'm surprised, it seems anymore the only teachers there are in schools are the biggest jackasses in existence who are more immature than their teenaged students.
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    Post by Nystyle709 Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:13 am

    That's fucked up.
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    Post by Tony Marino Thu Oct 13, 2011 12:16 pm

    CeCe wrote:That professor should be told to not come back to work.

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    Post by Marc™ Thu Oct 13, 2011 3:27 pm

    That's terrible.
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