“I’m sorta torn on this one. ‘Mentally challenged’ is a little better than ‘mentally retarded’, which is close to calling them ‘retards’. But the PC bell has been rung and it’s too late to unring it IMO.”
While I am not a PC person, there was no need to single out these innocent children because of their unfortunate disabilities.
Very poor taste indeed and gawd-awful.
There was no excuse and or need for that.
Terrible indeed.
From the article: “The yearbooks will be redistributed this week, school officials said, without the offending pages.”
So the treatment of this self inflicted wound by the school administration is to confiscate all the yearbooks and rip out the “offending pages” thereby leaving the “special needs students” out of the yearbooks completely. Sounds about right for public education.