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To: Politicalmom
If they were mine I wouldn't have put them in school.

Think about it, what could they possibly learn? How much should your neighbors have to pay in taxes for that?

21 posted on 05/22/2012 9:40:01 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Beagle8U
If they were mine I wouldn't have put them in school.

No. But fortunately, if they were your kids, the state would have found you unfit and taken them away long before they reached school age.

45 posted on 05/22/2012 11:06:26 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: Beagle8U
If they were mine I wouldn't have put them in school. Think about it, what could they possibly learn? How much should your neighbors have to pay in taxes for that?

When I was a kid the Polio epidemic was just coming under control but the results of it were all around. A good parent will do all they can do no matter what a childs handicap or disability to help them go as far in life as they can go. My parents were no exception. They did it for me. No I didn't have Polio but I live with a person it did hit and went undetected for several decades.

At age 12 I was placed in a school for kids with physical and mental disabilities. It was actually two schools on one campus. Due to the student needs those with Downs and retardation were at one school and the rest at another. I was lucky. I could walk, see, hear, and didn't have Muscular Dystrophy, CP, Polio, BiPolar-Schizoprenia, ADD ADHD, Spinal Bifia, or other more serious issues my friend and classmates did.

I was from birth and still am uncoordinated, have Vestibular {Inner Ear Damage} one eye functional vision, And a very short concentration window on most days. That was me at 14 when I finally got help. At age 54 I am over 50% deaf now and walk with the aid of a cane. The Inner Ear issues make employment impossible as I have seizure activity from it. But I still am a full time medical and personal caregiver.

The help I got in my two years at the school made it possible for me too later after high school join the Navy & do an Honorable four year hitch making expected rank of E-4 during that four years. It allowed me to work till I was about 37 when I had to medically retire. By work I mean I was an HVAC/Electrical mechanic. I worked in Three Phase equipment and on 300 ton A/C units.

You want too write people off who by no fault of there own were born with disabilities. I don't. The man with Downs Syndrome working at the local supermarket understands how to bag groceries correctly. The teenagers do not. The deaf woman who is a cashier also does her job quite well. Actually I didn't realize she was deaf for quite a while. I have a cousin who can only move a few fingers. She has a college degree. Her sister who is also confined to a wheelchair is a wife, mother of her now grown kids, and a bookkeeper in a trucking company. Their parents didn't write them off.

Perhaps the one most dearest to me and my hero is a person I would not give up on. Just when her life was reaching a point where things were really looking up for her the Polio which they believe may have went undetected came back with a vengeance. Quadriplegia at C-5 C-6 which is in the neck. That happened in 1985. November will be our 27th year being married.

This isn't the 1800's where those who have disabilities are shut up in some room out of sight out of mind. Almost all can be helped. It is by having adversity and learning to live with and overcome as much as possible mankind has accomplished and risen up.

61 posted on 05/22/2012 8:11:01 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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