A federal lawsuit out of Kentucky has placed law enforcement in the
spotlight once again, raising concerns about overzealous disciplinary
policies carried out against special-needs students when they commit
minor infractions.
That is a hellishly uncomfortable position to be in - even if you’re hyper-mobile. This is fucking abuse.
A friend of mine once remarked that when he was growing up, he thought that he was either going to die before he reached adulthood, or he’d grow up to be a nondisabled person. The lack of disabled people on screen taught him that people like him only existed inside the walls of the hospital he visited regularly, and his special school. He had no idea disabled people came in adult form because he’d simply never seen any.
