It disappoints me no end to see how many bleeding heart simpletons there are posting here at Free Republic. Life is unfair. You make the best of it and tomorrow is a new day. Do the whining posters ever stop to wonder why this is even a story? The mother, apparently feeling sorry for herself, MADE it a story by approaching some liberal scumbag Democrat reporter. That's how. And the reporter (cripes, hopefully not the mother but who knows...?) thought the class picture should be a "group hug" with the wheelchair kid as the center of attention? Please. I think I'll go throw up now.
I agree with you. I’m a bleeding heart in a way (though I don’t fall under the PC definition). I hate to see humans or animals suffering. Tears me up. But it’s life. I’m a parent. I protect my kids always. Nobody fucks with my kids. I’m also raising them to be responsible and contributing members of society. The last thing I’d do is expose my child and family to this shit...make the world, want the world, to pity my child. It’s disgusting,imo.
I see it as the mother feeling sorry for herself and subjecting her child to this. All for her own benefit.
It’s the same with having sports teams not try to win becuase the other team is so bad. That, to me, disrespects both teams and all the players.
All of my kids have been in varsity and club sports. The best get to play. You want to play, you perform. It is what it is.
This mother, or someone, made this an issue.
<....”It disappoints me no end to see how many bleeding heart simpletons there are posting here at Free Republic. Life is unfair. You make the best of it and tomorrow is a new day.”....>
And that’s exactly why this nation has no backbone....everything is an issue...and the people today do not know how to stand when the going gets rough.
That kid will have more strength and guts and stamina then the entire class put together when he’s an adult..because he will learn how to overcome “unfairness”....unless his mother holds him back.