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WHEELCHAIRS ARE WELCOME BUT NOT SERVICE ANIMALS? BOWLING SLIP?INCIDENT #1
I received the following email from MoveOn and I've contacted them and am waiting on a response:
Power Up America Campaign Kick-Off
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati, OH 45211
Saturday, March 28th, 4:00 PM
(We'll send you the full address when you sign up.)
Let's keep the momentum going! Please sign up for this gathering right away!
Message from your host, Paul M.: The site will be handicapped accessible.
There will be no pets..
So - wheelchairs are welcome but not service animals?
INCIDENT #2
Obama's humour problem
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/
Special Olympics?
Maybe he has spent too much time in the basketball locker room, where tough guys laughing at less-tough guys is part of the whole deal.
It is not a sign of moral turpitude, for goodness' sake, but (remember the Nancy Reagan joke in his first news conference?) it is something he has to address. I wonder if Michelle might be telling him that right now.
This is a wise piece on an unexpected problem...
HERE'S THE RESPONSE THAT I POSTED:
I'm a registered Democrat with Green Party tendencies who likes, as well as voted for President Obama. I'm a special education teacher. From the beginning I have communicated my displeasure to him at change.gov as well as change.org about permitting charter schools and their private corporations to invade the well-being of our once -upon - a - time public school system, as well as his devotion to the proficiency testing madness of the last 8 years. Now, I need to communicate 2 additional concerns. Although his teacher pay - by - performance incentive ideas continue to entrap teacher unions who have gotten used to regularly being defanged by the last 3 Republican Presidential Administrations, President Obama at some level must know that a happy and properly unionized teacher makes for educated and productive students. The other concern I have is that President Obama may continue the former administrations' policies of increasing the deregulation of Special Education Laws. The turning point occurred years ago when Public Law 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was domesticated by deregulating it and repackaging it as IDEA, or the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. President Obama's bowling comment slip should be forgiven as long as he steps up to the plate with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and meets our demands for the reinstatement of Public Law 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act.
