No extra break for lactating exam taker [View All]

I felt a little bit a sympathy until I read that she already gets a big break- she gets to take the test over two days rather than one and she gets a private room during breaks.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/20/judge_no_extra_break_for_lactating_exam_taker/

Judge: No extra break for lactating exam taker
Student sought time to pump baby's milk
By Felicia Mello, Globe Correspondent | September 20, 2007

A Harvard medical student and new mother will not be permitted to take extra break time to pump breast milk during her licensing exam to become a doctor, a judge ruled yesterday.

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The board has offered to allow Currier to bring her breast pump into the exam room and to provide her with a private extra room in which to expel milk during her breaks.

Currier will be allowed to take the test over two days, instead of the normal one, because she has dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and the board has agreed to give her 45 minutes of break time each day, the daily amount granted all test-takers. Currier wants an additional hour of break time each day.

But the board argued that it would be unfair to other test takers to allow Currier more time for a condition not recognized as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

"The national board thinks that breast-feeding is a fine thing to do, but it also thinks that having a standardized examination for licensure is also really important," said board spokesman Ken Cotton.