[#ffffff]Second grader in wheelchair set apart from classmates in school photo [/#ffffff]
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The mother of Miles Ambridge was heartbroken to see that her seven-year-old boy, who has spinal muscular atrophy and, as a result, must use a wheelchair, had been placed, chair and all, far off to the side from the rest of his classmates.
If you look at the photo:
they really had no other option. His wheelchair couldn’t be pushed over any further because of the wooden bleachers/seats. It’s pretty fucking obvious.Would the mother prefer they unhooked all of his shit and carried his limp body onto the wooden seats and stapled him into place?
“Look at the angle that he was in,” she says, referring to the way Miles is clearly craning his body toward the other children to get closer to them in the shot. “He’s ostracized. He wants to be part of the gang so much.”
No, he’s moving into the shot because his fucking wheelchair can’t be pushed in any further. Your kid is fucked up and doesn’t lead a normal life. That doesn’t mean he’s being “ostracized”.
Even worse, she says, the placement decision was made by the adults who organized the photo.
So, you’re telling me kids didn’t organize all of this? Get right out of town! There’s nothing wrong with the photo or his placement. Where else could they place him?
"For some reason it makes me feel even worse that he’s so happy in the picture,” Don Ambridge tells the Province. “I think it’s because he’s still innocent … He’s still naive to how other people can treat him.”
He’s smiling because he’s having his picture taken with the rest of the class. You’re projecting your disappointment onto him, you douchebag. Claiming that you’re unhappy when a disabled kid is happy and then preaching about naivety and how cruel people can be is pretty incredible.
Here’s a bonus nugget of fuck from the father, "Be sensitive to our differences, but don’t highlight those differences, accommodate them.”
The fuck do you want people to do? We can’t accommodate them if we don’t “highlight” or acknowledge them. Your kid is not a normal kid. He never will be. That is reality. It doesn’t mean he deserves to be treated poorly (and he wasn’t in this photo). It’s just the way it is.
I’m getting so tired of this sort of overly-sensitive, sob story, bullshit. People are so quick to assume them or their fucking kids are being persecuted.
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