This is a sensitive issue here. I want to disclaim that I do not have a personal vendetta against disabled people.
Jim Franklin is disabled. He thinks that the disabled should have the right to attend school with regular kids. I have two major issues with this - the first far more offensive than the second.
- I had many classes with disabled kids in both elementary school and high school. It was always an experience. It took the average kid about a minute to get a point across. It took the average disabled kid about ten. We were respectful, but couldn’t help but be annoyed; time is scarce. We wanted the most out of our time in class (well, sort of). As George Carlin so eloquently put it, “every child is not special!” Average kids should not have to slow down for the sake of making every child special. Fuck, most of the smarter ones already have to when it comes to regular morons.
- If all of sudden every single classroom has an influx of disabled kids, parents will take note. I also think a lot of private schools will take note too. Private schools lower tuition, or new low-tuition private schools open, they disclaim “no disabled.” Then all public schools are filled with disabled kids and regular morons. What a business opportunity for private schools.
It all boils down to a simple question really: should we strive to be as good as the best? Or should we try our hardest to make everyone as bad as the worst?
I prefer competition.
“I want to disclaim that I do not have a vendetta against disabled people”
Double negative, reverts meaning to: “I do have a vendetta against disabled people”, simplify to: “I’m an abhorrent asshole denying my occupation of being an abhorrent asshole”
(In the future I would recommend double checking your rhetoric before you insult the intelligence of a large and diverse group of people. If you’re going to be a dick, at least use good form.)
While you may not have a “vendetta against disabled people” (though you stated so yourself, so it would seem asinine to believe otherwise), you are doing an excellent job of being a discriminating asshat.
“Should we try are hardest to make everyone as bad as the worst?”
So apparently the presence of disability inherently posits one at worst possible level of the human race? Remind me what authority you have to make judgments about a significant portion of the population, again, because I guess I’m just too disabled to grasp this concept.
Perhaps in your idealist world it would be preferable if we were just institutionalized or exterminated? Because we obviously shouldn’t be privy to equal education as one so undeniably superior as yourself.
