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We should extend this concept to, say, politicians whose feelings might be hurt by calling them ‘stupid’ or ‘greedy’ or any number of things with bad connotations with which one sees so many of them associated. Any ideas what we could use instead to eliminate the hurtful stigma of these words?
Decades ago, poor children became known as “disadvantaged” to soften the stigma of poverty. Then they were “at-risk.” Now, a Washington lawmaker wants to replace those euphemisms with a new one, “at hope.”
Democratic State Sen. Rosa Franklin says negative labels are hurting kids’ chances for success and she’s not a bit concerned that people will be confused by her proposed rewrite of the 54 places in state law where words like “at risk” and “disadvantaged” are used.
The bill has gotten a warm welcome among fellow lawmakers, state officials and advocacy groups.
“We really put too many negatives on our kids,” says Franklin, who is the state Senate’s president pro tem. “We need to come up with positive terms.”
#13: That sounds like the time when some adults got the bright idea to not keep score when kids play sports. That way everyone was a winner!
Or when I was a kid, my grade school principal wanted to throw out the A, B, C, D, F grade scale and use only “Pass/Fail”. Nothing like making those kids who barely passed “just as smart and just as good” as the kid with the IQ of 150!
FAIL! In life there are winners and there are losers. Not everyone is going to be a success, and not everyone is going to be a failure. You’re going to be graded, you’re going to be rated, you’re going to get ranked. To do otherwise is unfair to those who have skills and abilities.
Good God these liberal anusfaces are stupid! All this does is change the meaning of perfectly good words. A “special” child is still a retard. All that’s changed is you can now insult someone by calling them “special”.
This will cheer the kids up? They’re not that stupid. Call them “at hope” and they’ll immediately know you’re putting them down.
Unbelievable cluelessness. (Well, I guess it is believable – look at who we elected to run our country.)
#22. Good example. At one time “Special needs” children were referred to “retard children”. Seems “Special needs” was a better term and it is. Same deal here.
Again, lost on your pathetic minds.
SO when you were a kid, did you prefer mom refer to you as “Husky” or “Porker” ?
#23,
Dallas..
“SO when you were a kid, did you prefer mom refer to you as “Husky” or “Porker” ?”
UMM, neither, mother would change what was for dinner, as IF’ we knew what was happening, since WE WERE POOR, and eating wasnt important.
#23 – Better in what way?
Calling someone “special” is an insult. No kid who’s worth a shit want to be called special and I wouldn’t criticize someone for punching someone who called them special.
Dammit, hit submit too fast.
Changing the word does not change the underlying concept.
Fat is fat. Tard is tard. Calling someone follicly challenged doesn’t magically grow hair. etc. etc.
As in “if you do that, you’d better hope your mother finds out first, ’cause if it’s me, I’m going full Kuru. I’ll be eating your brain, son. Oh yeah.”
I agree with several posters that the tone of voice in which the at hope is applied, will be more important than the words themselves. It may be like 60,000 fans whining out the nickname of one of the visiting team’s star players.
A more vague term isn’t going to help clarify anything, be it positive or negative. Of course the politicians like it, it’s a gutless, uncontroversial idea that really does nothing.
Why doesn’t she call them the advanced class kids? That should be sufficiently stupid. You walk into the class. You see who is there and you know all you need to know. Duh! They aren’t that gullible.
For those that DONT understand WORDS..
RETARD isnt the word..RETARDED is the word.
Which means SLOWED. which only meant that you Slowed down and learned alittle differently, or slower. You might have Missed an explanation or something. I found that out with Allot of people that couldnt do math. 1 or 2 little explanations, and they did VERY well.
This is a great idea! In fact we should replace every name with a politically correct one. “Evil” should be replaced with “morally impaired”, “criminal” should be replaced with “legal non-observant”, “child” should be replaced with “under age american”, “parent” should be “under age american caretaker” and when the living impaired rise up we shouldn’t run or shoot them in their heads, we should try to help them and guide them to a non-living flesh diet.
#23 From your behavior, seem you didn’t have one but a handful of nicknames. Now, you have Dullas to deal with. PC people are so stoopid.
#30 Always nice to have a spell checker in here. Correct. “Retarded” was changed to “Special Needs”.
Again. The term “Special Needs Child” is a lot more empathetic vs “Retarded Child”. Both the child and family likely view it as a better reference to a loved one.
The Conservatives can continue to say “retarded”, of course. No point breaking tradition.
Right, and the change of name will make it disappear. It’ll be all better now. Morons!