re: #123 WindUpBird

They take everyone and Republicans want to use that against them as proof of their failure.

THAT THEY TAKE EVERYONE.

My dad, as I’ve mentioned, went to Our Lady of Victory in Fresno, back in the 50s. There was a little boy in his class who was retarded.

The kid’s parents weren’t Catholic, which was less common then, but they had been told they couldn’t enroll him in public school, so they went to the nuns, and the nuns said they’d take the child.

Kid made fun of the retarded kid. Once. Sister talked to him, and he promised not to do it again. Then he did it again. After school, Sister took him to the convent, and told him to kneel and say the rosary.

“For how long?” said the kid.

“I’ll tell you when you can stop,” said Sister.

No one messed with the retarded kid again.

Today, thank God, that kid would be entitled to be in public school, and get appropriate services. Of course, he’d also be required to take the state standardized tests. That’s one thing when you’re talking about a kid with Down Syndrome, or a kid who doesn’t speak much English, but I had a chat with one guy who taught a SED classroom (that’s Severely Emotionally Disturbed, y’all). One of his students tried to eat the test form. There’s a whole procedure for that, BTW. You have to put whatever fragments of the test you can pry out of the kid’s mouth in a plastic bag and return them, with a report.