SLANT isn't just ableism, it is brutal colonialism. I think back to a university engineering course. It was held in a big lecture hall that drove me crazy, but I loved the content. I'd either be pacing in the back or sitting holding up the New York Daily News so I couldn't see the room. The first two weeks the prof called on me a lot trying to catch me, but I always had the answer, so he just accepted me.

Move years later and the school system I worked in adopted the rule that "every learner entering a learning space has the right to choose where, how, or if to sit." Among other things, this cut disciplinary referrals 80%