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trgd_15
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 Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject: School leaves autistic kids out of the yearbook. |
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http://www.kptv.com/education/16639257/detail.html
ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- The parents of twin autistic boys left out of a yearbook are accusing the school of discrimination.
Darla Granger said her sons Holden and Hunter were purposely left out of their Roseville, Calif., school yearbook -- along with the rest of the school's special needs children.
"When your own school district and the people that are supposed to be there to support you and your kids and your situation sort of shun you, it is hurtful," Granger said.
Holden and Hunter Granger, who are in second grade, are students of the Placer County Board of Education, which assigns special-need students to various schools within the district.
The boys are in a collage photo in the yearbook, but the school's special needs class, including teachers, is missing.
"I got the book and was excited to look up their class and see their pictures with their names and their teachers, and they weren't in it," Granger said.
Darla and her husband, Blandon, have filed a complaint with the Placer County Board of Education, but said they aren't taking legal action and would just like to ensure that the class pictures of their children and other special-needs students are included in future yearbooks.
The Placer County superintendent who oversees the special needs program at Quail Glen Elementary said she thinks the incident was an oversight, not a malicious act.
"I do have a hard time understanding how they could have not noticed that every autistic child from their campus was missing," Darla Granger said.
The boys' father said he doesn't know if the act was intentional but doesn't think care was given to include the children with special needs in the yearbook.
"I just felt like I needed to speak out," Blandon Granger said. "I feel like we are owed an apology. |
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AnonymousAnonymous
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Flying f-ing H!
What's next?
Not allowing autistic students to go to school events?
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roygerdodger
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject: Re: School leaves autistic kids out of the yearbook. |
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| trgd_15 wrote: | http://www.kptv.com/education/16639257/detail.html
ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- The parents of twin autistic boys left out of a yearbook are accusing the school of discrimination.
Darla Granger said her sons Holden and Hunter were purposely left out of their Roseville, Calif., school yearbook -- along with the rest of the school's special needs children.
"When your own school district and the people that are supposed to be there to support you and your kids and your situation sort of shun you, it is hurtful," Granger said.
Holden and Hunter Granger, who are in second grade, are students of the Placer County Board of Education, which assigns special-need students to various schools within the district.
The boys are in a collage photo in the yearbook, but the school's special needs class, including teachers, is missing.
"I got the book and was excited to look up their class and see their pictures with their names and their teachers, and they weren't in it," Granger said.
Darla and her husband, Blandon, have filed a complaint with the Placer County Board of Education, but said they aren't taking legal action and would just like to ensure that the class pictures of their children and other special-needs students are included in future yearbooks.
The Placer County superintendent who oversees the special needs program at Quail Glen Elementary said she thinks the incident was an oversight, not a malicious act.
"I do have a hard time understanding how they could have not noticed that every autistic child from their campus was missing," Darla Granger said.
The boys' father said he doesn't know if the act was intentional but doesn't think care was given to include the children with special needs in the yearbook.
"I just felt like I needed to speak out," Blandon Granger said. "I feel like we are owed an apology. |
An incident? Maybe they probably did that on purpose.
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AnonymousAnonymous
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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Agree.
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Nan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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Once Upon A Time they used to leave married students out of high-school yearbooks, or the photos of young women who had given birth out-of-wedlock. I had a friend who got married at 15, she could no longer be in the yearbook, nor participate in any of the clubs, etc., on campus - I guess they thought she would "contaminate" the rest of us. (She wasn't pregnant at marriage, either.) Young women who had babies outside marriage were often shipped off to "alternative schools" anyway, so they never appeared in the yearbooks again. Young men who were married were allowed to have their photos in the yearbook, though they also could not participate in any of the school activities.
People are so freaking weird about things, you know?
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CockneyRebel
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That's mainstream society, for you. 
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muffrudge
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| i don't think i'm ignorant of society's tendency to marginalise disabled people, but this instance i found truly shocking. |
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe the autistic kids were absent on Picture Day.  |
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Tequila
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Can anyone say 'whitewashing of history'? |
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| If the autistic kids never got their mugshots taken, how could they have appeared in the yearbook? |
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dayday
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| slowmutant wrote: | | Maybe the autistic kids were absent on Picture Day. |
ya sure, were not talking about only two kids, around a hundred. Do you think all 100 autistic kids were sick the same day? Or maybe the school has an autistic holiday that just happened to fall on the picture dayl Get a clue man. |
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CGKings317
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:03 am Post subject: |
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The idea that it was an innocent oversight is a suspicious claim -- to "conveniently" leave out ALL special needs students from the yearbook should be looked at suspiciously.
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tweety_fan
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| accident huh? yeah right! that is not cool. you can't black out a whole area of campus! |
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Everchanging
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:43 am Post subject: |
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Picture the scene, some 43 years ago...
"ROSEVILLE, Calif (1965). -- The parents of twin black boys left out of a yearbook are accusing...." |
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slowmutant
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:25 am Post subject: |
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| Whoah, whoah, relax people! I am just thinking of possible explanations. I am on nobody's side here. |
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