[lukan]

Yeah, they once told my wife this "expect students to show up in person", when she was pregnant and not all the time well. The result? Thrown out of the self paid language course at university with no refund.

[Loughla]

Your wife should have received accommodations through the office of accommodation services or disability services or access or whatever they call it.

The school should have had information about that in the syllabus.

Either way, with appropriate accommodations, in person classes can be flexible as well.

[lukan]

I probably should have said, this was in germany. (So probably even more surprising)

And yes, we likely could have sued, but we kind of were quite busy with everything else required to start a family.

[pyfon]

Should be able to sue. Basic human rights.

[Loughla]

Should have filed with the office of disability services (or access services or whatever they call it) for accommodations.

Without that there's no lawsuit.

[pyfon]

Pregnancy is a protected class.

Edit: not sure about Germany

[Loughla]

Not sure about Germany either.

But in the US, colleges have offices for accommodations. The faculty isn't required to do anything unless the university, acting through that office, tells them to.

Source: my career spent working with this kind of institution and this kind of office.