DUmbasses create their own world but don't much care for the looks of it

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

If it's one thing liberalism has taught us is: if there is a chance someone might metaphorically fall government must intercede to insure it will not happen. If it does happen those who "allowed" it to happen are to be punished mercilessly.

Worse still, if you subscribe to the "pick yourself up, dust yourself off and press-on" mentality you harm society as a whole because you undercut their philosophy of dependency.

So, a public school, well-versed and thoroughly beaten by this mindset is demanding a beautiful young child give-up on her quest to walk and demands she become just another wheelchair bound invalid for her own good.

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Jesus... ****ing... Christ !!! - 'School Bans Disabled Girl From Using Walker' - MSNBC
School Bans Disabled Girl From Using Walker
By Linda Carroll - MSNBC
3/29/12



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Kristi Roberts was stunned when school officials insisted that her disabled 5-year-old daughter switch to a wheelchair from the walker she’d been using for the previous two years. Little LaKay had battled cerebral palsy and epilepsy since she was born, and Kristi had worked hard to get her little girl up out of the wheel chair and walking – she couldn’t believe that the school was now taking away their hard-earned progress.

Kristi explained her position to NBC’s Janet Shamlian.

“If she can walk now, please let her walk,” Kristi said. “Don’t strap her in a wheelchair. We’ve worked so hard. She has worked so hard.”

When Kristi tried to make her case, officials from the New Caney Independent School District weren’t moved. They insisted that because LaKay had fallen down in the school’s parking lot – when she was with her mom – it wasn’t safe for the little girl to use a walker.

The Texas mom wasn’t going to take no for an answer. She recorded a conversation with a school official (with his knowledge) and then posted the conversation on YouTube for the world to hear:

“Basically she can’t use the walker because we don’t believe it’s safe,” the school official explained on the tape.

When Kristi pushed for an explanation, the official got huffy and responded derisively, “We’re gonna not do what the mother wants us to do – be sure to get this on tape.”

Kristi was astounded. “I am a parent and you are an employee that’s supposed to be an advocate for this child,” she said. “And from day one, you have not.”

The school official wasn’t budging.

Is she not the most brilliant display of self-determination and defiance of the odds?

Yet, here is the story posted at DU where they can do nothing but bitch about how they can't collect disability for their xanthophobia.

This is what you have wanted DUmbasses. This is what you say others must do.

Even then the DUmbasses spend the rest of the thread bickering and dickering over what the schools legal obligations might be even as they note the school is probably lawsuit terrorized.

Here's a clue retards: life is hard. Life has always been hard and life will always be hard. 160,000 federal regulations to make us all safe will only make life harder...and complicated. People fall down. Even beautiful little girls. We do not wail and gnash our teeth when people fall, we cheer when they get back-up...with a hug thrown in for the beautiful little girls among them.

Until you learn this simple truth (that's only been around for a few thens of thousands of years or so) you will always be frustrated, angry and disappointed. Personally, I think  the best therapy for you is to wait until YOU fall down and leave you there. If you stand-up on your own and rejoin us, so much the better. But you have chosen to make weakness an industry. You have made a virtue out of uselessness. No person is truly useless but you delight in the status whether its from the happenstance  of deformity or self-inflicted by indulgence and sloth. If you want to lay there and cry?


...well, even little girls will pass you by.


here's your ****ing link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002492050

[JohnnyReb]

There was a boy in my sons middle school that was born crippled up badly. He had extremely bent legs and one arm that was 'weak'(?). He used a walker with wheels on it. He could barely make it. The school would let him out in the afternoons a couple of minutes ahead of the other students and they allowed his mom to park on the side where no parking was allowed.

About that kid. My son said he was the funniest person in the school. Most all the kids liked him. One year he had one change of class that was rather long, it entailed going outside. Son and another boy would help him make that trip, one carried his backpack and the other would push him along....except on rainy days when they just picked him, his books and walker all up and ran with him. They had a "Pharaoh" and his bearers joke about that.

[jukin]

Come on, we all know this is Boooooooosh's fault somehow and not nanny state regulations and terrorizing lawyers.

[BEG]

H5 Bunny

[Wineslob]

Kristi was astounded. “I am a parent and you are an employee that’s supposed to be an advocate for this child,” she said. “And from day one, you have not.”

The school is, you idiot.

[AllosaursRus]

When I was in 6th grade there was a coupla twins who had Rheumatic Fever. Two of the finest kids I have ever met!

Whenever they had bouts of the fever, they would miss an inordinate amount of class.

Every single one of us in the class, includin' the teacher, Mr. Boris, helped to tutor these fine individuals in order to try and bring them up to speed.

That shit just don't happen any more! It's a real shame!

Unfortunately it got to the point they could no longer attend school. Their disease made it nearly impossible to even get out of a chair. I heard later that they had succumbed to their ailment.

What's the saying, "Only the good die young"? it was certainly true in their case!