reblogging again because it needs to be said
why are people even voting for romney
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Allow Autistic Student to Graduate!
Just a week before graduation, Sinclaire Coffer, an autistic student, found out he is not going to be allowed to graduate.
Coffer has good grades — mostly A’s and B’s — but he hasn’t been able to pass the math exam that is required for all Georgia students in order to graduate high school. The state allows students with disabilities to apply for a waiver that allows a student to graduate regardless of exams, but Coffer was denied. The family has not been told why, but most special needs students have been denied waivers.
Coffer wants to learn how to make movies and go to film school, but he cannot follow his dreams if he isn’t even allowed to receive his hard-earned diploma.
Please tell the Georgia State Board of Education to allow Coffer to graduate and to change the policy so that special needs students have better access to these waivers. This is an injustice and it needs to be changed!
Sign the petition here. Video is here.
— Brittany
"Judge Rotenberg Educational Center: Please Stop Painful Electric Shocks on Your Students"
In 2002, a special needs student named Andre McCollins was allegedly strapped down and electrocuted for hours, leaving him with permanent brain damage, all because he refused to take off his jacket. The people torturing Andre were officials at his school. You can watch what happened on video.
The video was shot at a Massachusetts school for special needs kids called the Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC). Gregory Miller used to be a teacher there, and he says electrocuting kids as punishment is extremely common — even for minor offenses like raising your hand to go to the bathroom.
“A non-verbal, nearly blind girl with cerebral palsy was shocked for attempts to hold a staff member’s hand — her attempts to communicate and to be loved,” Gregory says.
Gregory desperately wants to help the kids at the JRC —that’s why he started a petition on Change.org demanding that the JRC stop using electroshock to punish kids.
Gregory says the JRC’s founder created electroshock devices which are even stronger than police stun guns to punish students for bad behavior. An official at the United Nations said that using these devices on children is considered torture.
According to the Boston Globe, the JRC’s founder resigned after being charged with misleading a grand jury by destroying video footage of other students being shocked.
Gregory believes that if thousands of people sign his petition, his former bosses will capitulate in the intense pressure generated by a national spotlight.
Wow, so, uh, that’s… unbelievably fucked up.
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you holy shit.
The stuff that’s made America great—liberty and justice for all; the idea that there should be a middle class that you should be able to get into by working hard; that no matter what your gender and race is you should be able to participate fully in society; that the environment has a value that should be protected by government action, that children shouldn’t be made to labor under awful conditions but in fact every child should be in schools learning—all those values are the values that progressives and liberals defended in the last century and still defend every day. We are the ones who are defending America the beautiful through our environmental commitments. We’re the ones who are defending the Statue of Liberty’s stand for the newcomer through our stand for immigrants. We’re the ones who stick up for liberty and justice for all including lesbians and gays and other folks who might be left out. And yet we never claim the deep patriotism that our work implies—to the great detriment of our own cause and of the country. And I’m now, having had my own patriotism challenged repeatedly, willing to stick up for my own love of this country.
BOOM
Crickets….
So he never sat in on a class, but chose to shut down the whole program. Cool. I swurrtagot these people are belligerent dummies for fun. Their motto in life literally is “Fuck logic.”
And we must tell the truth… Mexicans didn’t illegally cross the U.S. border. The U.S. border CROSSED THEM.
KABOOM, bitch!
“I base my thoughts on hearsay from others.”
what the entire fuck.
Wait, is this for real? Like what he really actually truthfully said in real life for really reals?
Yes, really real. Daily show, source here
I know this was already quoted, but…
Why even go? I base my thoughts on hearsay from others.
I can’t even.
That was an actual quote
actually said
by an actual person
in actual seriousness
with no hint of irony
in an actual attempt
to prove an actual point.
What.
the.
fuck.
is.
wrong.
with.
that.
GUY.
