2008 Woodie Awards
Accomodating the capable is disabling
Arnetha Pierce
Issue date: 4/19/06 Section: Opinion
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It is unbelievable how uneducated people are when it comes to the disabled, and how the disabled are automatically judged.
When most people see a person in a wheelchair, they think the disabled individual is retarded. Able-bodied people never think that the disabled person just has a physical impairment.
You are disabling the able by this characterization and by not knowing the facts.
When I'm in line for service, or just sitting out on campus, a student will step over my feet as if I'm invisible.
You are disabling the able, because you have no respect for people who are in a wheelchair.
When I'm going across campus to my class, a student driver of the golf cart for Supportive Services, always stops to ask if he can help me get to my class by transporting me on the golf cart.
Although, he has a great attitude, he is disabling the able. I have an electric wheelchair.
I am a very independent person. When I try to enter a classroom, and the door is too heavy for me to open, this is disabling the able.
This is 2006, we should have automatic doors on all classrooms.
It is frustrating to me to see people running to help me open a door. It makes me feel helpless.
When I'm in newspaper production class, I stay in one spot. I have to do that because the classroom is too small to accommodate a wheelchair moving from one spot to another. This is disabling the able.
I would like to participate in every area of the development of the newspaper.
When I see people on those golf carts riding from class to class, I think, this is disabling the able.
If you don't have an oxygen tank, or if you are not blind, there is no need for the golf cart.
When I hear a student who is disruptive and insists on having his or her own way, and the instructor compromises to give the student his/her own way, the instructor is disabling the able.
The student is at a college-level institution, and he should know the definitions of both discipline and authority.
I see teachers and coaches riding these golf carts. This is disabling the able.
How do you teach, train, or direct students in endurance, discipline and stamina when you are sitting on a golf cart? The golf carts are a waste of taxpayers' money, and this is one more example of disabling the able.
The society of today needs to exercise more than ever before; we are eating more and getting bigger.
Take a walk across campus; it is not that much of a walk.
Do yourself a favor by working on your cardio, and stop disabling the able.
When most people see a person in a wheelchair, they think the disabled individual is retarded. Able-bodied people never think that the disabled person just has a physical impairment.
You are disabling the able by this characterization and by not knowing the facts.
When I'm in line for service, or just sitting out on campus, a student will step over my feet as if I'm invisible.
You are disabling the able, because you have no respect for people who are in a wheelchair.
When I'm going across campus to my class, a student driver of the golf cart for Supportive Services, always stops to ask if he can help me get to my class by transporting me on the golf cart.
Although, he has a great attitude, he is disabling the able. I have an electric wheelchair.
I am a very independent person. When I try to enter a classroom, and the door is too heavy for me to open, this is disabling the able.
This is 2006, we should have automatic doors on all classrooms.
It is frustrating to me to see people running to help me open a door. It makes me feel helpless.
When I'm in newspaper production class, I stay in one spot. I have to do that because the classroom is too small to accommodate a wheelchair moving from one spot to another. This is disabling the able.
I would like to participate in every area of the development of the newspaper.
When I see people on those golf carts riding from class to class, I think, this is disabling the able.
If you don't have an oxygen tank, or if you are not blind, there is no need for the golf cart.
When I hear a student who is disruptive and insists on having his or her own way, and the instructor compromises to give the student his/her own way, the instructor is disabling the able.
The student is at a college-level institution, and he should know the definitions of both discipline and authority.
I see teachers and coaches riding these golf carts. This is disabling the able.
How do you teach, train, or direct students in endurance, discipline and stamina when you are sitting on a golf cart? The golf carts are a waste of taxpayers' money, and this is one more example of disabling the able.
The society of today needs to exercise more than ever before; we are eating more and getting bigger.
Take a walk across campus; it is not that much of a walk.
Do yourself a favor by working on your cardio, and stop disabling the able.
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