Hi Eleanor
I don't think you should be too paranoid over this. Your tutor I am sure
did not get his Email removed because he wants to exert his power over
disabled students. We really do have to get away from this persecution
complex. Sometimes we see discrimination when it does not exist. I think
perhaps if you had wanted to publish what was a private Email then you
should have asked for his consent first. After all, he replied to you in
person, it is reasonable to assume that he did not expect his comments to
be publically available for all to see. It would have only been a common
courtesy for you to ask him for his permission before publishing his
reply.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "ELEANOR BURKE" <eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 2:47 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: The Open university course Materials in
Alternative Format
Patricia and Others you may be interested in the following. I posted the
e-mail from the publishers re the availability of the electronic text
book for my course. The publishers suggested that my tutor might contact
them on my behalf or Librarian etc. Anyway I wanted other students who
were without the text to know of its availability. I had also posted my
tutor's response to me which did not go down well at all. Note, as in
this e-mail I did not put up his name but left where he had signed
himself as Glen. First of all I was surprised that he had access to the
students' forum. Anyway he got my posting removed such is the power of
tutors over disabled students. this landed in my Inbox last night.
From:
To: eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: j.e.goodey@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 10:21 PM
Eleanor,
I have seen a conference posting by you pasting my response to your
latest
email.
I do not see why you found the need to put this on the conference. It
identifies me by reference to "tutor"
If I cannot be confident that emails will not be publicised then I will
not feel obliged to respond to any further.
Having done all I can for you Eleanor I am most disappointed at your
actions here.
As ever
Glen
There then went up a notice on the students' forum which reads as
follows:
Hi All,
I have unapproved the two messages sent by Eleanor as they appear to
contravene the CoC in that they contain copies of messages from a third
party without permission. I'd like to remind everyone not to copy or
quote from
those messages if you have access to them.
Cheers :
That is a disgrace in my opinion. There was nothing said by me that
should not be said and what was said was simply said in the e-mails from
Sweet and Maxwell and my tutor to me after reading the notice. I did not
comment on what he had said at all, simply left the readers to draw their
own conclusions. The named person to whom he Cc the e-mail is the Chair
of the law programme at the Open University. If anyone feels like
writing to this person on my behalf then please do. I feel my Human
Rights and Freedom of Speech were curtailled here.
Many thanks.
Eleanor
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