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Mother Says Playground Equipment Hurts Her Child’s Feelings
Redwood Falls, MN - Mother Candice Benner is suing Reede Gray Elementary School to install more handicap accessible equipment. Mrs. Benner says if they do not act soon she will tear the existing equipment out herself.“It’s bad enough the kids run around in front of her. Tabatha’s dream is to play kickball, but of course they refuse to modify the rules so she can participate. But the biggest indignity is that she can’t use the slide. If they refuse to update the equipment, it should all be torn out…and if they don’t act soon, I’ll take it out myself.”Superintendent, Rich Smellingworth says they simply do not have it in their budget. The school was forced to update their playground equipment five years before when Mothers Against Wooden Playground Equipment (MAWPE) sued the school to update the equipment. Although the small school did not have any handicapped children at the time they did include two disability friendly swings in accordance with the American’s with Disabilities Act.
PTA mother, Amy Dixon thinks the money could be better allocated. “If, we could afford one of them special slides there I’d be for it, but we can’t. And honestly I think when there is extra money in the budget our first priority should be taking the toxic GMO ingredients out of the cafeteria. It would be something for all the children, including Mrs. Benner’s daughter. Perhaps with a preservative free diet she would have more mobility.”Another parent , who wishes to remain anonymous says, “Well it’s not fair to her daughter. But life aint fair…Should we chop off the little boys’ you-know-whats because some of the girls have penis envy. Life aint fair.”
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Re: Mother Says Playground Equipment Hurts Her Child’s Feelings
Another parent, who wishes to remain anonymous says, "Well it's not fair to her daughter. But life ain't fair...Should we chop off the little boys you-know-whats because some of the girls have penis envy. Life ain't fair."
Hahahahahaha!!!
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Re: Mother Says Playground Equipment Hurts Her Child’s Feelings
My wife is a webmaster for a school. They just had to attend extensive training on how to build their websites to comply with a new directive in order to comply with additional handicap/disabled guidelines.
apparently, there have been several lawsuits filed against schools around the US in which legally blind people sued school systems to make their websites more accessible to the blind.
I believe the key to education for each kids has little to do with administrators or the money spent on kids. It has 90% to do with the parents making kids understand they are they key to their education. So i am fully supportive of all parents need to make information accessible in a timely manor. But come on, suing the school system and now effectively forcing an entire nation to build their websites to accommodate a micro % of the population is excessive. there are many different ways to get the same information for folks in this scenario.
But basically, the deal is that seeing impaired folks can buy software that when you mouse over anything, it will read the meta data of an object on the page. So if you mouse over a picture, if any description of that picture is added, the software will read the description.
The pay for a webmaster is absolute shit compared to the amount of work put in. This pretty much doubled the work required to update the pages now.
i am blessed with a healthy family so I don't know the struggles of families who are dealing with disabilities. I have family members will do have disabilities and they are saints for going above and beyond to make their kids life as productive as possible.
But I do think there has to be a ceiling of how much tax payers should have to be required to pay in order to make sure every person's disability has to be accommodated using the threat of law that is subjective to say the least.