The National Association of Ableists, a focus group of the American Association of University Professors has announced that because students with disabilities are hard to see, it’s clear they no longer exist.
“We don’t provide classroom assistive technologies, we don’t teach our faculty anything about working with students with disabilities, our disability services are virtually impossible to find, we don’t have accessible facilities, we’re really doing a bang up job of eliminating disability from the world of human affairs!” said Denbar Flook, Professor of Cablevision Studies at Open Moat College in Stuckyville, Wisconsin.
“Now that there are no people with disabilities we can get back to the important business of training young minds to live in a lifeboat,” said Flook.
Flook who is himself 4 feet 2 inches tall says that inside himself he’s really big.
“If you think small, you’ll be small,” Flook says.
Flook doesn’t think his elevator shoes are a reasonable accommodation, instead preferring to think of them as a fashion statement.
S.K.
Planet of the Blind 
Aha! You know, I think I actually met Professor Flook once when we both attended a Doo-Dah Parade years and years ago in Pasadena. His elevator shoes were quite fashionable indeed; I remember them still! SK, the National Association of Ableists could learn a lot from your Coalition of Universal Citizens. The NAA starts off with a great premise: We are all “able” to one degree or another. These abilities are the features that increase our potential to succeed, so its helpful to pay attention to them. Beyond that, what the CUC additionally understands is that sometimes average accommodations (like desks, chairs, fluourescent ceiling lights, whiteboards, etc.) in typical learning environments still are insufficient for some potential students who possess the requisite skills & knowledge to succeed. Educational systems in the U.S. still have a long way to go toward building better “universal” accommodations into typical learning systems. If typical accommodations are inadequate for a student who has a documented physical or cognitive impairment (in accordance to Americans with Disabilities Act provisions), modifications that can be reasonably provided by the educational system should be provided. The by-product of this process is an educational system whose members begin to better recognize the value of, and improve their ability to create, flexible educational systems that serve a more diverse populace.
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