Posted on 12/21/2013 3:25:06 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
CLEMSON, SC (FOX Carolina) - A video of a Dorman High School student with Down syndrome getting his acceptance letter into Clemson is going viral.
The parents of 20-year-old Rion Holcombe turned on their camera when they got the letter in the mail and uploaded his stunned reaction to YouTube.
"My heart started to jump out of my chest so this is what happened when I got this envelope," Rion said in an interview on Thursday.
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Oooooo, you’re a bad man.
Why?
How did the parents know it would be an acceptance letter? Surely Clemson has more applicants each year for their program for the disabled than they can accept.
We didn’t know what our National Merit Scholar son’s letter from Appalachian State said until we opened it.
So football players will have someone to talk to.
To tap into a whole new revenue stream.
Who spells Ryan as "Rion"? That's no different than black folks coming up with dumb names like "Barackisha" or "L-a" (Ladasha)
Actually I was thinking if they put this kid in the football players’ courses, he could graduate with a regular degree.
He’s probably above their pay grade.
So minorities can get out of the bottom quartile.
So they have a whole new category to drive guilt nails into white kids during the no-credit mandatory diversity seminar.
Tell me when you want me to stop.
Keep going, you’re on a roll!
To learn life skills like looking gor an appropriate job, shopping, preparing meals, sharing an apartment or other home, handling money etc. Their parents are not going to live forever. It’s a good program.
stop
You ought to be so ashamed of your stupid post! I would suggest you ask the FR mods to delete it!
Next time do a google search and you will find Rion is a popular name, especially in Ireland. The name Rion is an Irish baby name.
Meaning of “Rion”
Irish name
In Irish, the name Rion means- kingly. The name Rion orginated as an Irish name. The name Rion is most often used as a boy name or male name.
Irish Name Meaning - kingly
Origin - Ireland
Read more: http://www.meaning-of-names.com/irish-names/rion.asp#ixzz2oA0AJU2d
I know I am going to catch a lot of grief for agreeing with you, but what is the purpose of this program? How much does it cost us the taxpayers versus a typical group/work home. What extra skills do the students get from this? I could see it as part of a training set for some kind of Special Education degree, but do people with Down's syndrome really "need" to go to college.
I know I am going to catch a lot of grief for agreeing with you, but what is the purpose of this program? How much does it cost us the taxpayers versus a typical group/work home. What extra skills do the students get from this? I could see it as part of a training set for some kind of Special Education degree, but do people with Down's syndrome really "need" to go to college.
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