Descrimination and prejudice

[Guest guest]

There sure is a lot of discrimination out there. A " friend " on our church

child care roster tried to get us to leave because the delicately tempered

teacher, a friend of hers, was not dealing well with our son, who is a

pretty well behaved kid. The worst he has done is try to run around during

circle time, which his aide prevents and which he complies with without

resistance. Ignorance and fear seem to be the main factors. I told her

flatly that we would be staying and now she hardly talks to us. New

teachers came in and they are great but our son is ready to move to the

next room and I don't know what will happen, however, I will take action

with the church pastors if the situation comes up again.

For the person with the lousy neighbor--I hope she moves. I liked the

lawyer's idea of talking to all the other neighbors and making them more

knowledgeable and comfortable and letting nature take its course with the

lip flapping doomsday spouting mean spirited hard hearted jerk. Ya reap

what ya sow and things will come back around to her but educating your

neighbors through an outreach will make it come around a little faster.

Regarding the birthday party exclusion--I would call that friend up and

say, " Hey, thanks for not wanting my son to feel left out at your party

because of his eating differences but excluding him will make him feel

discriminated against and I'm sure that would NEVER be your intention. So

shall I bring him along--I'll make his piece of cake look just like the

real birthday cake? " And if she is reluctant I'd say " Hey, you know what.

I'll just take all my kids someplace special together and forego the party

so that my kids grow up understanding the importance of respect, empathy,

and equality and that prejudice, though sometimes done because of ignorance

and rudeness and not direct malicious intent, is still just as damaging to

a person's self esteem and to friendships as well and NOT accepting that

treatment will actually help the person being rude to understand how

important it is to treat people equally. "

Good luck.