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The Policy Was Real. The Access Was Fiction.


⟡ You Gave Me Accommodations. Then Punished Me for Using Them. ⟡

Filed: 4 July 2021
Reference: SWANK/FIU/2021-PETITION-ACCESS
📎 Download PDF — 2021-07-04_SWANK_FIU_DRC_AcademicPetition_DisabilityBarrier_MaternalAccessDenied.pdf

I. An Academic Petition, or: A Forensic Analysis of Procedural Betrayal

This document was filed to Florida International University (FIU) in response to one of academia’s most dishonest rituals: offering support, then punishing the student for accepting it.

It outlines a sequence of events in which:

  • Approved medical accommodations were ignored

  • Disability adjustments were erased mid-semester

  • Maternal obligations were treated as non-compliance

  • And illness was framed not as a limitation — but as a failure of character

This is not a request for help.
It is an autopsy of an institution that handed over crutches and then shattered your knees.

II. What the Petition Reveals

  • DRC adjustments granted — but not enforced

  • Professors scheduling assessments in conflict with disability protocol

  • Academic gaslighting reframed as “rigour”

  • A system incapable of honouring what it authorises

  • A mother forced to choose between protection and participation

The barrier wasn’t academic. It was administratively engineered.

III. Why SWANK Filed It

Because universities polish their inclusion policies, then weaponise procedure the moment you invoke them.
Because compliance is used to prove you’re undeserving.
Because no student should need a petition to remind the institution of what it already agreed to.

Let the record show:

  • You asked for help through every proper channel

  • You were ignored

  • You followed every rule

  • They punished your cooperation

This petition was filed not for accommodation — but for legal posterity.

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not believe “academic rigour” justifies procedural harm.
We do not accept that deadlines trump diagnosis.
We do not accept “You didn’t say it the right way” as a reason to deny access.

Let the record show:

The institution wrote the policy.
You followed it.
And they revoked it the moment you depended on it.

This isn’t a petition.
This is documented pedagogical misconduct — with timestamps.




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