Thread by @kurteichenwald

1. Given this is the 60th day of tweeting about @notredame driving out a kid with epilepsy by declaring that the kid could risk death or leave because they didn't want to abide by the law, I have decided to add a few facts.

The family begged ND to contact experts...ANY experts..

2....they waived medical confidentiality and urged the school to contact the kid's doctor. They urged them to contact the Epilepsy Foundation. They urged them to contact an expert of @notredame choosing. The point was, they believed that ND simply didn't understand, that no...

3...school would actually believe that a kid with a disability had to increase his risk of death to meet some subjective belief that having a roommate was an essential part of attending ND, and that they did not have to adapt that to the ADA. They believed that, once ND spoke...

4...an expert, they would get it. They believed the school simply didn't understand epilepsy, didn't understand the issues facing their son, and all that was needed was explanation.

@NotreDame refused. They refused to speak to an expert. They refused to speak to the kids MD....

5...they simply declared that making an adjustment to their roommate rules was "an undue burden" because they thought having a roommate was important way to learn to care for others.

Seriously. This school is so blind they think forcing a kid to risk death because of...

6...his disability teaches something about caring for others. I don't know if theyre blind, stupid, or engaged in grotesque discrimination. What I DO know is people with epilepsy face this kind of discrimination day after day, and we are not going to take it in silence anymore...

7...now, any doubt about what @notredame is has been blown away by their CONTINUING refusal to learn about epilepsy. A major epilepsy organization told me to offer to ND that they would send their top people to ND - on the group's own dime - to explain to them what they did....

8...to explain the risk they were imposing on this kid, as well as to notify them that the federal law on discrimination against the disabled does not have a "we have a policy" exemption. If something as minor as roommate policy could be used to keep out kids with disabilities...

9...then no kid with a disability would ever attend ANY university. Somehow, @NotreDame believes that children should risk death for their roommate policies. And they think that's ok. It is illegal.

This boy dreamed of going to Notre Dame. Despite his disability, he....

10...worked hard - overcoming enormous obstacles - to qualify for Notre Dame. He did so, and was accepted. It was only after the school heard he needed an accommodation that the "risk death or leave" standard came down.

The kid went to another school similar to ND, and is....

11...happy. THAT school offered him the accommodation he needed just on hearing about his health, BEFORE he even asked.

Which school taught a lesson about caring for others?

@NDAlumni should be ashamed of their school. And if they do nothing, they are complicit.