“Don’t worry, we won’t be removing your support, it’ll just take 3 weeks for you to get your notes from your notetakers from now on.”

That’s the message that disabled students are getting from the Manukau Institute of Technology, as they look to make budget cuts. As it is, the disability support office has had one of its three staff culled, and while students are assured they’ll still receive support, it will “operate under a more constrained budget”, MIT’s PR guy has said. One way it could work, he said, is by slowing the turnaround time for notetakers to deliver students’ notes.

Oh, fantastic! That’s entirely reasonable. Because disabled students aren’t disadvantaged nearly enough, let’s give them their notes weeks after class, that oughta do it…