Is this all part of the National Association of the Deaf vs Harvard and MIT lawsuit? Those schools both offered free online content and this Reuters article talks about the case and also the bad transcription in closed captioning:
Lawsuits say Harvard, MIT webcasts leave out deaf Americans
| Reuters. This sounds suspiciously like what was mentioned in the case involving the Lifelong Learning Colleges. If The Villages case is a small subset of a bigger lawsuit against similar educational opportunities, it puts a whole other spin on this and may be why no one can get any sense of what these 32 specifically want as a resolution. What if they don't really want a simple resolution but want to prove a point nationally?
I firmly believe that if anyone had a legitimate requirement to take a few courses, most everyone here would understand and would have been happy to help find simple solutions. I am very afraid that this is NOT the case. If a very small group of people are using this as a platform for a larger movement, I find it tragic that the rest of our retirement community, along with the employees and teachers of the College, have to bear the brunt of their actions. According to the link to the case that has been posted earlier, they were asking for damages. Why ask for damages if you are a simple retiree just wanting to take a few classes with the rest of us? Why hire a cadre of big out of state lawyers? Because the College was associated with the charter school, their first priority is to the young students and not to the College. Tragic, tragic if we find out that a very few have pushed a private agenda only to prove a point on a larger stage.