Kid Voted Out of Kindergarten
A special needs kindergarten student in Florida was voted out of the classroom by his peers. The vote was initiated by the teacher according to the mother in the video.
The Coral and Opal blog made a post on this as well, the author points out that Ms. Portillo, Alex’s teacher, stated that “she and the class a was not ready for him to return.” Portillo said Alex was pushing up a table with his feet while he was laying underneath it. While nothing I read about this said Alex was doing it to hurt people, I don’t see why he was punished. I, and probably everybody else, don’t know why Alex lifted the table. He could have just trying to impress a girl. To play a devil’s advocate, why would a young boy with a disability want to impress a girl? We all know all persons with disabilities are a-sexual. 
While I could spend more time looking at this issue, I want to look at the fact that no major site or news source has covered this. I did a search in my RSS reader for more stories about this issue, and came up with zero hits. So I am wondering why it didn’t get more coverage.
The Empire Strikes Barack
The Empire Strikes Barack
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The Past Few Weeks
The past few weeks have been hectic for me. I had some personal issues come up that I had to deal with, so its been quite the emotional roller coaster. It will always kill me how one minute things are fine, and the next is gone.
I am not sure why I am being vague. Basically I met somebody who I thought I connected with really well. Or so I thought. I went from getting a reply to a text or instant message almost instantly, to going an hour without a reply or acknowledgment. While this happened she claimed it did not, however I could see quite clearly something was going on. After about a week of this I had enough, and called her out. I was hoping for a civil conversation, but it ended up being her yelling at me.
In other news, school is going not to well. My financial aide has not kicked in and paid. That means that the lovely housing department has cut off my meal card, and I cannot eat. Fortunately, I knew that they were going to do that and I bought a good amount of food prior to that. However, that doesn’t get around the real issue of why my aide has not paid yet. They have not called nor e-mailed me back yet telling me what’s up, yet the last time we spoke it was going to be done in the next couple days.
Having no money myself, I cannot really pay all of it, and I am considering a loan, which I am dreading. People have been like well that is just a part of college deal with it. So, like I said the past few weeks have been hell…
Word to the Wise
I just logged in here not too long ago, and saw that I had new spam comments. Usually I just hit delete all, and go on my way. But I decided to take a quick look to see what lovely things I got spammed with. I saw that the name was the same as mine so a thought that our friendly spammers were just getting smart. I looked again and saw that the comment was actually a comment which I had posted a while ago. I scrolled down some more, and found that a number of previously legit comments were marked as spam.
Yesterday I upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1, as well as upgraded the Askimet plugin. So, just do a quick look before you hit delete all.
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