DISABLED CHILD MISTREATED... posted 5/8/2007 11:10:34 AM | 3 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: disabled, handicap, mistreated, spina bifida

Toric

Hello:

Let me tell you about my niece Jada. She was born with severe spina bifida. She is mostly wheelchair bound, has to wear a diaper, and has a shunt tube in her head. She lives in a horribly backward county, where many of the people consider someone who cannot work at labor as worthless. She has beaten the odds and will be graduating from high school two years early. As she is my niece because my father married her grandmother, she is niece by marriage, but I am closer to her than I am to blood relatives, and consider her my niece. She is graduating two years early, and is writing a book about her life experiences in that horrid and fascist Crockett County. If you think I am exaggerating, read on... I have posted a few paragraphs from her first draft...As I live 80 miles away in Memphis, I did not know all of this. Really pissed me off!! The excerpt is below. Brace yourself!!

I speak for children all over the world who have been neglected from their school I went through the same things growing up as a child. Child neglect in schools has gotten way out of hands and I think schools should take it into their own hands to make sure a child with a disability should be given proper care, no child should have to go through abuse as I did growing up in school. And it was not from the children it was from faculty. So parents if you know your child is being neglected please try and get help, for many years I’ve bought people from agencies all over the world to help fight against my school..... my school promised to get things fixed an do things right when people was in front of them but they never did take it inot their hands an try to do anything right!




Growing up in west Tennessee I was the only one in my family who was in a wheelchair, but I did not let that bother me never did I hang my head with shame knowing I was the only one who was in a wheelchair, at times I did get kind of depressed but I have always looked at it this way “never say you cannot do anything because you can if you put your mind to it”. people looked at me instantly and thought I was mentally retarded because of me being in a wheelchair for years. the schools I have went to tried to put me in a special needs class, by the time I reached high school was when most of the trouble started, they did not have any thing handicap accessible, I had doors broke on me I didn’t get to drink water while at school because I could not reach the water fountains. If I bought a water bottle to school my teachers would instantly grab it up and through it in the trash can. I never did get teased by the kids at school I got alone with everyone greatly! I only had trouble out of the teachers, during preschool my teacher at that time had pushed me into a corner and had stacked boxes all around me so I could not move and also she had taking it into her own hands and she slapped me a cross the face. I have to wear a diaper because I do not have complete control over my bladder but at that time in I did not get changed my bottom was bleeding by the time my mother had picked me up from preschool, by the time I reached elementary things still did not get any better I was only changed once a day, my cloth would get wet they would not let me call home to get any. At one time my teacher had let one of the students push me onto the play ground, and they had flipped me over my face was bloody I had gotten black eyes but never did anyone from school try to call my mother to tell her I had an accident on the school’s playground.

I rode the bus to school and many times the bus driver did not strap down my chair correctly and I have been through into the other side of the bus the straps would come off. I have been almost flipped out of my chair while riding on the bus because the bus driver would drive way to fast and she would stop to quickly.

Middle school wasn’t all that bad but they still treated me the same way, I wouldn’t get changed half the time, and the times I did get changed would be when my pants would be soaked. I missed a lot of school during high school and middle school because they refused to give me a locker that was accessible so I could put my books into.

The nurse the school had hired to do my catheterization was unsanitary I got a lot of urinary tack infections


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