I don't know.... Where do you draw the line ??? In this day and age, we have to accept everyone's beliefs, handicaps, opinions, and short comings. Is this really going to improve society as a hole? Someone I know came up to my counter the other day and told me they were applying for disability. I asked them "Why?" They told me they felt most people where A-holes and they just can't deal with working.
Should this person be considered disabled? On the one hand, the way I presented it - most would say "NO!". Give it to a lawyer ... then it's a slippery slope. Then, all of a sudden phrases like "social anxiety disorder", "agoraphobia", and "panic attacks" come out. Now should this person be considered disabled?
My opinion is most of this stuff is just BS. If you want an education and a job you have to suck it up and compete with others. If you need special requirements to take a test - whose to say you won't need special requirements on the floor when your a nurse? What if your having some type of psychological "issue" when a code is called and you simply can't deal with it or respond appropriately?
Programs like nursing are meant to be hard to weed out people who can't take the stresses of the job. Picking up vast amounts of information and being able to be tested on it uniformly is a stress unto itself. This is not fair to the other students who pass the course following standard requirements and testing procedures. Somehow, we just throw all THEIR rights and achievements out the window to compensate for some wacko?
I've seen like a zillion people come here from other dirt poor countries with like 2 nickels in their pocket to go to school for pharmacy. A lot of these people barely spoke English and had zero support in this country. Like 15 of them used to live in a 2 bedroom apartment off of Broad St in North Philly (The Bad Lands) - and none of them had a car. They would eat stuff for lunch like rice balls rolled up in tin foil - because it was cheap.
Somehow, most of these people worked their butts of and did very well and thrived. They were no BS type of people, where their primary purpose in life was to study. They never complained about the workload, professors, or testing - they just shut up and did it...
Dunno. I think some Americans could learn a lot from these people.
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