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2012 Spread the Word

Drizzt80

Drizzt80

Dakota Corns
If you haven't heard today is the 2012 Spread the Word to End the Word day.

We can argue semantics all we want, but other than the words gay, fag, and the n-word, I can't recall another word that is so flippantly used and is connected so strongly with a group of people.



Support it or not, it's all about choices.

Thanks,
D80
 
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This is such an awesome thread. The videos made me cry. I am a special ed teacher and I have worked with children that were medically fragile to emtional distrurbed. Some of my favorite kids I worked with had Down Syndrome. I am a mother of a special needs son. The R word isnt never allowed to be used in our house. My daughter always lectures others when she hears them use that word.

Thank you for sharing!
 
I agree completely! Last year, I was part of my school's STAR program, which helped the mentally disabled kids. Those kids were the sweetest, kindest people you would ever meet, and I feel lucky to have known them.
 
I agree Anerybree. I miss my kids I worked with. I had a breakdown and quit the school system. I hated how the administration treated its Teachers and EA and I hated how the regular ed Teachers and some of the Special Ed teachers treated our kids. It was horrible. I became an advocate for other special needs kids and have taken a very active role (even more so than before) with both my kids education!
 
Awesome thread. The R word should be stricken. It is one of the most hurtful words anyone can use.
 
Completely agree! I also appreciate '2012' being used in a positive light. Everybody deserves respect, and if there's a term that demeans and demonizes a person based on factors outside of their control (such as the 'R' word), then people need to be civilized and sensitive, and not use such terms.

The other thing that needs to stop (right now in 2012) is bullying altogether. I keep reading article after article of young kids, making life ending decisions before they're old enough to even put life into any perspective. Mostly because they've been called the 'R' word, 'F' word, 'N' word', and every other hateful word on the regular. Words mean everything to young people if they've never had compassion.

The 'Tolerance and indifference' approach clearly hasn't been working in schools. I think acceptance and understanding is fundamentally the only way to go.
 
I read an article about a Special Education teacher belittling his students and demanding them to be called "special" eventhough one student was asking him to just call him "normal". It was heart wrenching. I have taught my son that no matter what label kids or teachers give him, he is his own person and can over come anything this life has to throw at him. But words can be so devasting to our children.
 
My oldest son is Autstic. He is bright, smart, and so very loveable! His first aid in preschool cried when the year was over and I am still in contact with his second aid. Soren is 10 years old now. Soren knows he is autistic and one of his favorite movies is "Temple Grandin" Clair Danes does a wonderful job in that movie :)
I was lucky as a kid, my Mom use to be an aid for an autistic woman and a woman with Down syndrom. I have so many wonderful memories of those 2 ladies. My Mom taught them how to bake, we took them swimming, they loved to come and play with out cats :)
We are all different in our own ways, can you imagine how borning life would be if we where all the same?

Great videos!! That second one that is one happy little girl! She is lucky to have parents who care and love for her, she will go far :)
 
My oldest Kyle is bipolar, ocd, sensory integration dysfunction and Tourette's Syndrom. I have taught him that he isnt defined by his disordered but they are part of him. He is a wonderful, caring, loveable and funny teenage boy. I know both my kids are a gift from God and cherish them everyday. I feel the same way about every child, special needs or not!
 
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