Must not say mentally retarded students are mentally retarded
They've got "special needs" instead
Seniors at a Mesquite, Texas, high school will have to wait for a reprinted version of their yearbook, this after the initial publication labeled some special-needs students "mentally retarded."
Officials at the Mesquite Independent School District have apologized to families and students of Mesquite High School, east of Dallas, for a section dedicated to students with disabilities that contained errors and offensive language, district spokeswoman Laura Jobe said.
Jobe said she did not read the two-page section, but did see a photocopy of one page, which was sent to her office. She said a section read: “some of the disabilities the students in the Special Education Program have are being blind, deaf or non-verbal.”
She added: “Specific disabilities of students were also cited in the yearbook, with some labeled as both blind and deaf, as well as mentally retarded.”
Students on the yearbook staff, a team of mostly seniors and a teacher advisor, also did not have parental permission to publish the photos of the students with special needs, Jobe said.
Source
I've got a special need for cevapi with kaimak. Does that make me retarded? Maybe it does but I like to think that I just like Yugoslav food.
9 comments:
This is wrong on so many levels. A yearbook is supposed to be a celebration of your time in high school. Why would you single out students with disabilities. Did they ID students with ADHD? How about gays? How about girls who got pregnant and the fathers? How about the receiver who dropped the pass that cost the championship?
A course is a course is a course of course unless it's special ed. (Apologies to Mr Ed).
“…also did not have parental permission to publish the photos of the students with special needs, Jobe said.”
This is what the problem is. It also would not be appropriate to publish photos of people speaking of “This student has been diagnosed with schizophrenia..” or “This student has Crohn’s Disease.” Without their and their parent’s permission. It is a violation of their privacy and depending on how that information was obtained a violation of the law. This isn’t a case of political correctness as much as it is a case of unethical and irresponsible journalism. This is at the very least a civil tort.
"I've got a special need for cevapi with kaimak. Does that make me retarded? "
No. But being a conservative does.
Mentaly retarded people are smarter then the buricrats and collage grads
"Mentaly retarded people are smarter then the buricrats and collage grads"
LOL
BTW, BoP is actually a card carrying liberal attempting to make conservatives look stupid with his/her inane statements and the lack of any correct spelling and grammar.
Methinks our troll missed your intended irony, Bird. Not for the first time, nor for the last.
Annon 3:39 IM A CONSERVATIVE your a LIBERAL
Children, play nice...
If you want to scrap, come over to my website and debate...
It does strike me that it was not good manners to single out students. Of course, schools stopped teaching anything so pedestrian as 'manners' years ago; peculiar that they somehow are surprised that students are unclear on the concept. Even more curious is how this got by the adult advisors (NO sane adult hanging around HS students would EVER trust them to that extent) surely they MUST have seen it and yet not been disturbed by it.
Post a Comment