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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

UMM, neither, mother would change what was for dinner, as IF’ we knew what was happening, since WE WERE POOR, and eating wasnt important.

Again, lost on your pathetic minds.

SO when you were a kid, did you prefer mom refer to you as “Husky” or “Porker” ?

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.)

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.

There are interesting thoughts about this.
In most cases, if you are called something in EARNEST, with real meaning, then you will fight to change it or ADAPT with it.
Being called POOR isnt a bad thing.
its a designation that you are in a situation that you can WORK HARD to get out of, we hope.
Being called an ASS, means you should wonder if you are doing the RIGHT THING.

what is happening, is like collecting all the designations for something that tha happened BETWEEN a child and an adult and grouping them under 1 header..CHILD ABUSE. which is NOT a very good description of what happened.

ALL these folks are doing is SOFTENING the wording for THEIR own concerns. when they see a word like DISADVANTAGED.. What does that have to do with being POOR, HANDICAPPED, MENTALLY RETARDED, QUADRIPLEGIC, or anything else. It just makes it EASIER for them NOT TO KNOW, and NOT TO CARE.

Its also a way to HIDE things. AS you can make these words MEAN ANYTHING. A person making LESS THAN $100,000 per year is DISADVANTAGED. Its like reading a LAW journal or Science manual and not knowing the language.