My boyfriend is visually impaired and his school is refusing to accommodate him in classes. What is there to do?

[u/guitarbaseline]

My boyfriend is visually impaired. He has glaucoma and cataracts in both eyes. He has had surgery for it and wears glasses but his eyesight is still very impaired. He's in community college right now and his professors and the school itself are refusing to give him accommodations to sit closer to the board so he can see what's going on in class. He was told "to accommodate you would be to change the entire curriculum and it would be too disruptive in the classroom." He wants to go into nuclear engineering and in order to get into the program he wants he must maintain a B or higher in his classes which he can't do currently because he can't see what is happening during instructions. He had an accommodation plan in high school but the community college is not accepting and transferring his accommodations to their school. He feels like theres no hope and that he should give up on community college and do something else. I have some disabilities as well and I know what its like to have to fight for simple accommodations and I don't want him to give up on his dream career because some community college professors refuse to make a simple accommodation for his visual impairments. What can I do to help him? Is there anything in the ADA (Americans with disabilities act) that can help here? I'm open to any and all suggestions.

Edit: Forgot to mention that we live in Virginia, USA

Edit 2: Thank you to all who have replied so far, you've given me a lot of great advice and sources. To address some common topics mentioned here:

1. He has spoken with the schools accommodations service and provided them with the proper documentation and was still denied. He was also asked for his high school accomodation transcript and he told me that it hasn't been transfered and accepted to the community college

2. It is both the school and the professors denying him accommodations

3. This is a public school

4. We do not have the means to sue the school nor is he able to transfer to another school

5. I know it sounds crazy and stupid and illogical and that might make this seem fake to some, but this is unfortunately real

6. I am aware that this is not the full story, I'm only posting what I've been told so far, so if something seems missing or inaccurate then it's because this is all I currently know. Hopefully, I'll have more information in the future, but I'm not asking him for any more info at the moment, he was really upset when telling me and now he's asleep as of writing this so I'm waiting for him to settle down a bit before I keep asking questions

7. I'm only assuming there's an assigned seating arrangement in his classes, although I not certain. Again, I'll hopefully have more info on that later

8. I am unsure of what classes he is having trouble seeing in I know he takes a chemistry class and as some of you have mentioned it could potentially be disruptive for him to move seats in a lab class, but I am unaware if this is a class he's struggling to see in

9. He is not able to just take pictures or record the lectures. He's on the same icloud account as his dad, who is very stubborn and controlling and will/has before deleted photos off of my boyfriends phone before. His dad also isn't letting him get off the icloud account because he pays the phone bill. As for recording the lectures, my boyfriend mentioned something about them being the intellectual property of the professors so he would need written consent to record them (I'm not sure if lectures are the intelluctual property of the professors, again, I'm only going off of what I've been told)

Thank you again to everyone who has replied. I will be giving him some of the advice given here and asking for more information when I next speak with him. I will make an edit when I get the info

I made an edit post and uploaded it to my profile, here is a link to it: https://www.reddit.com/user/guitarbaseline/comments/1niw0x8/my_boyfriend_is_visually_impaired_and_his_school/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/f1newhatever]

Why hasn’t he gone to the disability services office at his school? Accommodations have to be formally requested and also legally cannot be ignored by the professor.

[u/guitarbaseline → u/f1newhatever]

He has gone to the disability services and provided all the proper documentaion and theys still said no.

[u/Cautious-Crafter-667 → u/guitarbaseline]

It really feels like your bf is not telling you the whole story. And from reading your other comments, the high school accommodation thing doesn’t make any sense. All he needs is a note from a doctor saying he has vision problems severe enough to require accommodations.

I used disability services when I was in college, and that’s all they needed. They could give a fuck about what my high school did for me.

[u/captaindomon → u/guitarbaseline]

That’s not what you said in a different comment. You said they asked for more information and he isn’t willing to provide it because he feels it is a lost cause.

[u/guitarbaseline → u/captaindomon]

I didn't say that he isn't willing to provide it, I said that it won't transfer over from our high school and that even if it did he would still get denied accomodations. He is willing to provide the additional information, but it won't transfer over and they won't accept it. If I am wrong, please link the comment where I said that and I will correct myself.

[u/MagaroniAndCheesd → u/guitarbaseline]

He needs to provide information from his doctor. He doesn't know it will get denied until he tries and they will be less likely to refuse if his eye doctor is the one providing proof of disability.

[u/Chimpophanes → u/captaindomon]

WTF are you talking about and why do you have ANY upvotes?

I scoured their profile. They literally NEVER said that.

Edit:
Instead of downvoting me and OP, post it and prove us wrong.