ADA Mandates Sleeping in Class?

An acquaintance whose son teaches high school told me about an accommodation I've never heard of before: sleeping in class. 

Apparently, a student's sleep apnea keeps him from a restful sleep, so whenever he falls asleep during class, the teachers are supposed to refrain from disturbing him.  Moreover, they've been instructed to keep track of what the student misses while asleep so that they can give him copies of the materials, additional time on tests, or whatever else it takes for him to stay current. 

How can this be right?  The acquaintance tells tales of other students pretending to sleep, snoring, being disruptive in ways one might expect in a large public high school

As someone with a fairly invisible disability myself, I am not one to heap scorn on necessary accommodations.  However, this particular accommodation seems quite burdensome for the teacher and the other students; it also seems ripe for abuse.  Not that I can think of anything better, really, if this student truly needs to sleep whenever the mood strikes.  Have any of you heard of anything like this?

Comments

[Prentiss Riddle]

Send him or her to the nurses's office or teacher's lounge for a proper nap?

I've had insomnia in my time, which isn't life-threatening like sleep apnea but results in much the same groggy condition during the day, and boy I'd have loved to have a doctor's note mandating the right to take a mid-afternoon nap!

[Christi]

Dave has sleep apnea, and he has a machine that he uses when he sleeps at night, called a CPAP.

It's a condition that needs to be treated, and allowing the student to sleep won't help it, imo.

I'm too lazy to Google right now, but I researched it quite a bit when Dave was having lots of sleep issues, before we knew for a fact that's what it was.