huw Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 link The girl's mother Donna Williamson said her daughter was physically unable to take part in the activities planned. She told BBC Scotland: "She cannot hold a bow and arrow for example, or go kayaking, because she has no upper body strength. "My daughter would have been excluded in that she would have had to stay in the centre while all the kids went off to do the activities. ... "The school has tried hard to accommodate the needs of pupils, but such is the complexity of the legislation governing disability discrimination that the council felt it had no alternative [to cancelling the trips] at this stage." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 link Ah! I've been hoping this would appear: perfect HPC material. Hold on... Edit: here's a news report on video, including an interview with the parent who complained. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-QUORK Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 This is bloody outrageous, I was convinced that this story was from the Daily Mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scunnered Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 This is bloody outrageous, I was convinced that this story was from the Daily Mail. I'm sure it will be in a few days. "Political correctness gone mad!!!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinker Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 The whole of our society is now devoted to meeting the needs of the dysfunctional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Storm Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 I thought this was going to be cancel all benefits!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Y-QUERK Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 The cancellation is temporary till the New YEar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone baby gone Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Surely this is discrimination against the able bodied? I don't think the disabled girl, or her mother will be very popular with the other pupils! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonytramcar Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 The council must be stark raving bonkers, this just beggars belief. If you take this to its logical conclusion there will be no sports, no schoolkids allowed in the playground, no PE, no drama activities, no nothing. What kind of future do these lunatics think they are creating? I seriously fear for a country that allows apparently mentally deranged people to work in positions of official responsibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Masked Tulip Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Too ruddy right. I love music but have no musical talent hence everyone who can sing or play an instrument should be banned from doing so. Of course, that would wreck my love of music but... um, not thought this one through... How we ever stood alone against the Nazis is beyond me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Stromba Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 Welcome to the EUSSR comrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw Posted December 25, 2009 Author Share Posted December 25, 2009 The cancellation is temporary till the New YEar. It would be a postponement in that case, not a cancellation. She added: "In the new year there will be a concerted effort to provide an appropriate out-of-school excursion for all the children." No way can she be talking about re-instating the previously-planned excursion there, as that one was clearly only appropriate for the able-bodied children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erranta Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 The whole of our society is now devoted to meeting the needs of the dysfunctional. You just summed up > The House of Lords + The House of Commons! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-QUORK Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Are you shifting your political stance then X-QUORK? Not in the slightest, but my Guardian-reading bias becomes somewhat destabilised when these stories appear from somewhere other than the Daily Hate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest X-QUORK Posted December 25, 2009 Share Posted December 25, 2009 Give it time, if you find these stories 'outrageous' it doesn't matter what paper you currently read as its how the contents of these stories appear to your internal compass I would suggest. I read the Telegraph & Times, I find their stance more centralist than the two you've mentioned. Your irony sensors seem a little fuzzy this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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