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The Class Photo that Broke a Mother’s Heart
yahoo.com ^ | June 17, 2013

Posted on 06/17/2013 5:42:11 PM PDT by grundle

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To: Gabz

She’s 14? OMG, when did she grow up so much?


341 posted on 06/20/2013 6:09:21 PM PDT by tioga
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To: BykrBayb; DJ MacWoW

Back in the day of many siblings, there wasn’t a kid in America who wasn’t initiated into snowball fights without having it start with snowballs thrown at them. Learning to throw them back was learning the game.

That’s all DJ MacWoW described, but also that his MIL had the advantage of being allowed to learn and participate regularly with the other kids despite her handicap—and how that sort of treatment paid off for her through her life.


342 posted on 06/20/2013 6:40:54 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: 9YearLurker

I’m quite familiar with snowball fights. I’m also familiar with separating one child out from the group, teasing him, and pelting him with snowballs. And I’m familiar with the age old methods of teaching children to turn a bad situation to their advantage.

These parents were not asking to have their son treated different. On the contrary, they want their son to be included, not excluded. It’s really not complicated.


343 posted on 06/21/2013 12:50:12 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Orgiveme

When you teach your children the right lessons, they tend to put all those separate lessons together and learn the big picture. You can be proud of your sons’ respect for others. You taught them that, in a million little ways. If you had told them that disabled kids should be separated from the group until they can be just like everyone else, that’s what they would have learned.


344 posted on 06/21/2013 1:06:11 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

The kiddo was included.

It was only the obsessive focus of his mother who found the picture inadequate because the bleachers and wheelchair combined to have him not precisely as bunched in as the kids on the bleachers. IMO making a federal case out of it shows that reasonable efforts at inclusion will never be good enough for some families.


345 posted on 06/21/2013 1:56:29 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: tioga

She’s going to be 15 in less than 2 weeks. I have no idea where the time has gone.


346 posted on 06/21/2013 7:16:37 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: BykrBayb

Why? Because it makes idiots feel better if they tear down someone else. I can understand making fun of someone’s opinion but to ridicule a disabled person is pretty disgusting.


347 posted on 06/21/2013 7:20:21 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: cripplecreek

> If I were the photographer I would have put him
> right in the middle in the front and have the other
> kids form a gap

IF you are a photographer, you would know that wouldn’t work.

1. it’s common practice to put wheelchairs on the side.
2. putting the chair in front would require the photog to reset his camera and lighting (not going to happen)
3. the “gap” would need to be about 5 people wide. this would cause more whining and crying about the pic, as the mother would complain of her child being singled out. (been there, here’s my t-shirt)


348 posted on 06/21/2013 7:26:40 PM PDT by codewizard
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To: codewizard

I am a photographer.


349 posted on 06/21/2013 7:27:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: metmom

I think you replying to this says more about your agenda than anything else. But, it’s typical of you so I’m amused :)


350 posted on 06/21/2013 9:15:20 PM PDT by Twink
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To: grundle
The only thing I can take from this photo (after a quick glance) is just how tragic...heartbreaking...it can be for handicapped kids.I worked for a large,big city hospital for 20 years.We didn't have a pediatric service because there was a major pediatric hospital right next door.However,that pediatric hospital used our chemotherapy and radiation therapy facilities for their patients so it was common to see little kids being wheeled through our hallways.Whenever I saw such a kid my heart would break and I'd thank God that all I had to deal with was dead and dying 80 year olds.
351 posted on 06/24/2013 7:08:12 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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