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- Strike Two for The Post
- "Disabled Pupils Win Right to Medical Aid." Headline from the March 4 Washington Post, reporting on the Supreme Court ruling in Cedar Rapids Community School Dist. v. Garret F. Totally wrong, though.
"The in-school services Garret needs are no more 'medical' than was the care sought in Tatro," the Supreme Court wrote in its ruling. Post reporter Joan Biskupic evidently listened to spin from the defeated school board instead of the Court. "The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that public schools must provide a wide array of medical care for disabled children attending classes," she wrote.
What the Supreme Court actually said: "The continuous character of certain services associated with Garret�s ventilator dependency has no apparent relationship to 'medical' services. . . . This case is about whether meaningful access to the public schools will be assured."
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- Better beaten than disabled
- "Child-centered parenting" . . . [fosters a] "sinful disability called me-ism." Warning from radical right-wing "Babywise" child-rearing manuals by authors Gary and Anne Marie Ezzo. Their most popular book, "On Becoming Babywise," has sold nearly 300,000 copies.
If not "corrected," "me-ism" will lead to other "disabilities" such as obesity and learning problems, say the Ezzos. Inflicting beatings with a rubber spatula is recommended for 18-month-olds who continue their sinful ways; food deprivation as a training tool is to be used from birth. The American Academy of Pediatrics says hundreds of infants have shown signs of malnutrition and other damage from parents following the "Babywise" regimen.
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