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Originally Posted by graciegirl
The Founder, Harold Schwartz sold modular homes. He was a SALESMAN. It is o.k. to sell things and to make money. Even make a lot of money. Within the law. AND in the process create a wonderful place where older people can have an interesting and happy life.
The Lifelong Learning College closed because it was challenged to do the things the American Disability Act required it to do and it would have to raise the tuition sky high to comply.
There is a price for everything and they weren't willing to pay. I would have done the same thing if it were MY call. We can't have everything we want in this life. Sometimes the price is too high.
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That does not sound like a correct version. It would not have been too costly to meet the demands of the ADA as far as reasonable accommodations are concerned for the Lifelong Learning College and translators for the deaf. The reasonable part comes into play when you are talking about which classes needed translators. They should be a translator if a deaf person needs one for some class but this could have been any variety of things. It would depend on what kind of class this was. And you could write out for instance what was going to be in the lecture and ask for volunteers who knew sign language from the community. The developer did not approach this as a problem that could be solved by this community working together on it. Instead it was a competition between lawyers and law firms. Lawyers should be the last option people try; and not the first.