Downs child left out of high school year book

This disgusts me to no end. Especially since in our nation people like to dribble on about morality and this being a Christian nation and so on. This absolutely sickens me. We're offended by gay marriage? We should be offended and outraged by this. What kind of example is this to our young people? And then we point fingers and say the youth is too materialistic and celebrity obsessed!!! Where are the ADULTS at this school?! If we're going to implement programs on social skills and "being nice", (Corrine are you reading this one?) then perhaps charity really does begin at home.

My child was left out of a private school directory last year but I knew the people doing it would not do it intentionally. It really was an oversight.

My son has endured a couple of injurious actions by two private schools for learning disabled children. When he was at Frostig School he was the only one out of 100 in the school to have his last name wrong in the yearbook. They gave him the last name of a female student (this was not a switch, as the girl's last name was correct) This did not happen to any other student. Then last year when he was a junior at Bayhill High School, they left out his photo completely when they had photos of all the next year seniors. And of course, there was the chronic misspelling of his last name, in between these two negligent acts. Of course, both schools, had every excuse in the book as to why these "errors", "oversights" or what every defense they came up with happened and this year in his final yearbook, graduating seniors had pictures of their early childhood but my child's was blank. My child made up some reason why - but why did the school allow this? These schools get paid very well by the districts and yet the districts tolerate this discrimination - which is what it is. I could call it a few other things too. I notice if a student is not liked or not popular or whatever, if there is going to be acting-out it will show up in the yearbook. The yearbook - a permanent, historical recording. These schools should be sanctioned for these abusive actions. My child threw out last year's yearbook and never again opened the yearbook from Frostig. I don't buy that these were innocent mistakes - and you will never convince me otherwise. And I have noticed that more and more you read about yearbook pictures where there is some type of acting act against a student. The yearbook has become a weapon of humiliation.

Was it an unfortunate oversight or an intentional action? What is proposed to make sure that it doesn't happen again in the future?

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