One of the current scams in higher education is claiming accommodation for your “disability.” Students who get this are given additional time on exams, supposedly to make things “fair.”

In today’s Martin Center article, a recent UC Berkeley law school grad, Andrew Testerman, blows the whistle on this racket.

He writes:

At Berkeley Law, there are more disabled law students than there are male law students. By the end of the academic year, upwards of 40 percent of Berkeley Law students may be enrolled in the university’s DSP (the total increases throughout the year). Furthermore, data obtained from Berkeley’s DSP office reveal that 98 percent of disabled students have a primary or secondary diagnosis of “ADD/ADHD,” “anxiety,” or (somewhat less commonly) “depression.”

This is even more absurd when you realize that most students in law schools (and especially elite ones) come from successful families and have done well throughout their years of education. The thing is, smart people like that know how to pull the strings that get them “accommodations.”

Testerman continues:

A person who seeks reform faces hostility on multiple fronts — particularly when nearly half of his fellow students will be bitterly opposed to his efforts, and particularly when he is confronted by an administration that is at once terrified of offending purportedly marginalized groups, and, perhaps, embarrassed by the sheer enormity of the fraud, the abuse, and the systematic unfairness they are obliged to countenance. Indeed, the Dean accused me, repeatedly, of “having an agenda.” Yes, I have an agenda: I want to take fair law school exams.

Apparently, the world of “social justice” means that we can’t have fair exams.