Did anyone else see this in the newspaper today:
“Students asked to dress as a disabled person for fundraiser”
Read this quote from the newsletter that was sent home with the children: “There will be prizes for the best students dressed as a person with a disability. Get your thinking hats on and see what disability you can represent!”
The fundraising day is well meaning (raising funds for cleft palate operations in Bangladesh) and I am sure no offence was intended, but it makes me a bit sad that not just one person but a student representative council (which I imagine probably involves teachers, students and parents) decided it was a good idea.
According to the article, they later sent clarification to the parents to say the idea “had been for students to come in with a bandaged arm or leg” which somehow makes it worse rather than better.
Is that what constitutes a disability?
Well, it’s definitely not the crime of the decade, and I can see all the good intentions behind it, but I still wish a little more thought had gone into it.
I do hope they raise the money for their good cause though.
I just posted on the same subject. I just can’t believe that someone somewhere thought this was a great idea.
Di, that sounds like the most bizarre thing to do! I am sure a zillion other options were available. I find the whole thing quite strange and surely at some stage someone in planning would have to?
Totally agree with you both. It’s just astounding that at no point along the way did SOMEONE have the common sense to say, ummmm, maybe this actually a really bad idea.
I bet the school is cringing now over all the bad publicity!I know I’ve definitely crossed it off the list of possible primary schools for us in the future
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That is horrifying! In what universe could that have been thought to be a good idea???