Here's a list of posts that have received one or more comments this week:
- Who Does Autism Happen To?
- Is It Wrong to Choose Special Needs to Speed Up an Adoption?
- Peanut Allergy Imperils Heroine in Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
- Alex Barton's Mother Sues the Teacher, School, and Union
- Request Adapted Physical Education for Your Physically Challenged Child
- Weekday Reflection: Learning
- Site of the Day: Yes I Can! Awards
- Does Mady Gosselin Need Discipline, or a Diagnosis?
- Weekday Reflection: Squeaky Wheel
- Wordless Wednesday: What I'll Be Reading in October
- Explaining Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder to Young Readers
- Bad Behavior, in School and in the Spotlight
Top comment-getting post was my Wordless Wednesday entry on my (titles partially obscured) October reading pile, and my personal pick for comment of the week is this call to arms left by commenter Joy in response to a post on Alex Barton's mother's lawsuit:
"I say 'Go for it!!!' Our kiddos have been seen as brats ('they should KNOW BETTER than to act that way,' 'he could snap out of it if he WANTED TO,' etc.) We parents have long been viewed as the bad guys -- wanting way too much in the way of services, causing the kid to be this way, etc. But, do all these WRONG beliefs justify a district (i.e., teacher) bullying or harassing a child this way? What if it had been a child of a different color? The NAACP would have been all over it. Or, a child in a wheelchair? Society would have joined forces for a lynching. Just because it's more of a 'hidden' disability doesn't mean the severity of it all is any less. It's time Alex's mom strikes a chord of fear in their hearts (or their pockets) to stand up and say once and for all for ALL OF US, 'We're mad as h***, and we're not gonna take it anymore.'"
What's on your mind today? Speak out in the comments below, or add your opinion to the posts above.
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