Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Langley Campus — Attraction in City of Langley

It's been a couple years and my mind still feels cursed to be an echo chamber for the experience of disclosing neurodivergence; and in EDAS no less.

The accomodations department felt unaccommodating, suggesting calenders and alarms. After being refused several accomodations and missing more than 50% of my grade, accomodations suggested giving up. I relied on random homeless people and paid them money out of pocket to help me keep focus. That worked and I scraped by on the academic portion until I got to the practicum section, which felt even worse in regards to KPU staff.

Practicum staff failed to uphold several key responsibilities. The practicum coordinator of the time reccomended to not rock the boat at practicums; to instead rely on my KPU Practicum Advisor for advocacy. I feel this unknowingly left me left me completely without advocacy when I truly needed it. (again, I felt strongly that disclosing neurodivergence was a mistake here, given several clear-cut, ableist criteria I was failed under.)

I felt blindsided at the end of my practicum with vague and unexplained reasons for failing, which were never brought up with me during practicum.

I didn't feel I was ever given any opportunity to defend anything I was alleged to have done poorly. When I was failed and given specific reasons after the fact, I addressed those reasons successfully, and my failure was still maintained, except now it felt like the goalposts weren't even moved again, they were hidden.

When requesting a meeting to discuss practicum with my advisor, her response was to send a late night email, for an morning meeting the next day. She essentially did this process twice, without confirmation, and when asked to have 24 hours notice for a meeting, she refused, saying others have been fine with it; that she had already set up meetings.

After being given what felt like non-explanations for failure, I felt my advisor basically went with the "this talk already happened" deflection when asked for reasoning. I felt I was going into appeals process while guessing why I was being failed, in a month long practicum.

Needless to say I failed the appeal, and after a freedom of information request, feel that I may as well not have been a part of the appeal: there was zero evidence of anyone in the appeal process addressing, grappling with, or even mentioning a singular issue, point, or concern I brought up.

I found out that in the appeal new information was provided, unbeknownst to me particularly from the advisor chiming in, in what felt like incredibly dishonest, manipulative, heavy paltering, to hide professional embarrassment. I feel she made me look more "autistic" than the "Good Doctor". I did not find a single mention of what I felt where the many examples of ethical-dilemmas or practical challenges I feel I confided to her during practicum.

At any rate, this new information was given in as part of the appeal, unbeknownst to me, which feels like direct violation of KPU's procedural fairness processes, wherein they are very clearly expected to provide new information to the appellant to confirm the accuracy thereof. This did not happen. This felt further excused by KPU at the secondary appeal process, who reasoned that they believed the associate dean provided an alternate to review they thought was adequate. Upon asking for more information on this, I feel the response can be paraphrased as "we aren't going to tell you."

From my end, it feels like the "alternative to review", was to talk to my advisor about it, and to the principal, who is the person I feel my advisor should have advocated for me with in the matter, but upon later talking to the principal myself, my advisor seems to have not done whatsoever. I feel trusting KPU staff to advocate for me as requested by KPU staff, over using self advocacy, essentially left me without any advocacy when I most needed it.

Feels like places like KPU is a big part of why the system fails ND kids & adults so miserably.

I still have days this experience claws at the inside...

Please do not attend school here. I have been enrolled in the HCAP program and i am going to be honest I wish I could have chose another school. The teachers are very rude and they like to make fun of students who fail or don’t do their homework. Whenever I ask for help in my classes from my teachers I always get the same response “ Well you should of read the material I can’t help you” They also expect you to book open lab time to help you pass skill test but honestly the lab is open only weekdays from 10-4 and I was in class Monday-Friday 8-4. How am I gonna be able to book a lab and practice? I always hear the teachers complain About being at school and wishing for the weekend to come soon. I’ve also been marked absent for days I have been present at school and marked late on assignments I’ve handed in well before the due date. Worst thing Is I got in a car accident and when I returned to school to have a meeting with my teachers they said that I should drop out and retake this course next year, they want you to fail and don’t care about people. Funny thing is when someone that is higher up is nearby such as the Program Chair the teachers will actually do their job right and have a better attitude towards you. My high school had better teachers that actually cared, this...

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