“Yes, Alex ... I’ll take “What is Proof-reading” for $100.
high school is a wasteland.
My daughter worked for a care facility called Heritage House. They are a chain of homes for handicapped residents. When her W2 form came for the taxes, I found out that their real name (from when they were founded 50 or so years before) was and still is The Retarded Corporation.
This must be why Rush called it “high scruel”.
re·tard
verb (used with object)
1. to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
verb (used without object)
2. to be delayed.
It's only very recently that this has been considered "insulting" or "derogatory" when it is a completely acceptable term. I'm not very PC, as I consider the PC Police to be more concerned about "thought control" than anything else. Mentally Retardation means that an individual is mentally slow or delayed. It doesn't mean they cannot learn, that they are not meaningful individuals. Words mean things - the PC police have shaped this term to mean something that it doesn't.
They ARE at least attempting to protect the disabled students from Hussein’s death masters, especially in Texas.
It’s become a pejorative term, but I remember a time when no stigma was attached and no such label was intended as anything but explanatory and descriptive. “Retard” means “late” which would accurately describe the mental and emotional development of those under this label: i.e. “late” developpers.
I suppose that they could just extend the descriptions of the individual students outside of the “special needs” section.
For example, Timmy H. is morbidly obese, has problems with personal hygiene, and is dyslexic
Tammy G. has two STDs, weighs 139 lbs, has an anxiety disorder, and has problems with algebra and long division
While the term “mentally retarded” has fallen out of favor the past several years, I think the bigger issue (for those who actually read the article) is at least some of the special needs kids in the school are not what anyone/others would consider mentally retarded.
I’m not sure I understand the need to label them anything but students for a yearbook.
Blind, deaf, and retarded?
The real crime was calling them ‘students’, furniture would be more like it.
That’s one expensive mistake. My son’s yearbook was $65.00 this year.
It is hard trying to always be politically correct. I can never figure out why “colored people” is not politically correct but “people of color” is. Is “people of retarded” politically correct?
I have a slow hearing disorder. When someone screams at me it takes me five times as long to understand what is being said as someone speaking normally, at normal speed. It’s better to have warning signs that you can read at your own speed. Fer instance, if that were me who was getting bombasted by the teacher, she would have to write on the blackboard, ‘You gonna get your ass arrested for dis’n the president of the United States.’ I would allow all capitol letters though. That way I would know she was screaming. And it would give her something to do with her hands instead of tearing out her hair and choking herself, indicating what she wanted to do to me.
It is niggardly not to use the clinically accurate, descriptive term “retarded”.
I attended a conference of the affairs of the Physically Disabled in Toronto in 1975. Resolutions were put forward. One was to stop using the description 'Crippled Children'. Later this was put to a very middle-class lady at a meeting. She was a person in the charitable field.
She rolled her eyes in mock horror. We would lose half our donations without the words `Crippled Children` she said. What a put down. The fund continues to this day. I will have to check on what percentage of the dollar goes to the kids.
WHY would there even be a special section for the “Special Education” students?????
This is nuts.