Lecturer embarrassing you in front of others

Am I being stupid and petty? Maybe I need to realize everyones an adult at university and I'm just over-sensitive?

Still, that you have "additional needs" ought to be private and not blabbed to everyone.

The uni should have arranged a separate room that wasn't going to be disturbed. If I were you I'd make formal complaint about the lack of consideration in the arrangements and about the dreadful behaviour of the supervisor.

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Definitely talk to your tutor or your undergraduate office about having a separate room for tests/exams, I'm pretty sure it is a requirement that they have to fulfill. However I don't think the supervisor was out of line, regardless of what he did you were going to be affected and its not a problem you're going to face in the future so writing a complaint is a little pointless. But definitely use it as leverage if they try to refuse you better arrangements.

I agree with those who said the lecturer didn't mean any bad, but dealt with the situation inappropriately. However, I don't think that setting a separate room would help. I think it would only make people who have special needs feel kind of "ghettoed" and that would not really help their integration with the rest of the student body. I tend to agree with those above who said it was better to schedule the test with the last group, so that the extra time would have been allowed without embarrassing "side effects." That said, I am pretty sure none of the students really cared

Can you explain this, I have dyspraxia and take tests in a separate room, but I don't feel like I've been "ghettoed", I feel like I am receiving compensation that I asked for to make tests and exams fairer. I don't see how taking tests in a different room should affect people from integrating with the rest of the student body.

Don't misunderstand me, I don't mean at all that you should not be treated according to your specific needs. Fairness is a moral duty on your university's part. I was just objecting that in my view, a separate room might make somebody with your same needs feel uncomfortable, maybe because it would make them feel different in a negative way. I am just speculating here, and of course if this is not the case, all the better

I have additional learning needs (as they call it at my university) and a few weeks ago, I was doing a test. Every seminar group had a separate time to do the test. I have 15 minutes extra and I needed it on this test as it was extremely hard.

When the normal time was up, the lecturer asked everyone to stop, but she had already said any ALN pupils can continue.

I continued, however everyone left and she invited the next seminar group in and started shouting ''Be quiet, there's a pupil with additional learning needs still doing the test''. She repeated this three times before people were actually quiet, but by this time, everyone was staring at me...

I stood up and just dropped the paper on the desk where the lecturer was standing and walked off. I felt so uncomfortable and didn't get the extra time as I extremely embarrassed.

Am I being stupid and petty? Maybe I need to realize everyones an adult at university and I'm just over-sensitive?

grow a pair ffs. She was doing it for your benefit!