Deaf Ole Miss graduate sues school alleging violations of ADA
WTVA News reported that Joshua Sisco, a deaf student who graduated from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 2020, filed a federal lawsuit in March alleging the school discriminated against him when it failed to provide captions for its campus video broadcasts, videos posted on the school’s social media pages, and in videos in his classes.
The lawsuit said Ole Miss refused to continue to enable captions on the televisions located in its common areas because other students were complaining about the captions.
The lawsuit explained that Sisco received a poor grade in a Chinese history class because the professor gave out tests based on videos that were not captioned. The poor grade pulled down Sisco’s GPA, which he believes will harm his prospects of obtaining a good job or prospects of entering a graduate program.
The lawsuit said Sisco met with several staffers to raise complaints and was promised that the issues would be addressed, but they went unfulfilled.
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The lawsuit demands Ole Miss take steps to fix its discriminatory conduct with captioning, implement policies and training, raise Sisco’s grade in Chinese history, and provide a partial reimbursement of the increase in tuition that Sisco paid to the school because he was an out-of-state student.
Sisco told “The Daily Moth” that he hopes that now that he’s stood up for himself, things will change for the better for future deaf Ole Miss students.
Lawsuit: http://media.heartlandtv.com/documents/Joshua+Sisco+vs.+Ole+Miss.pdf