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- inactive, on 01/07/2009, -61/+238Looks like she hears the Ice Cream truck. Probably hears them call for back-up as well.
- phatfiend, on 01/07/2009, -27/+174"Excuse me while I sue you for not accomodating my every need."
oh wait... welcome to the rest of your life. - h0ser, on 01/07/2009, -15/+141the world is too sensitive. Humiliation can be a good thing. It teaches humility. Filing a lawsuit doesn't teach you anything except greed and revenge.
- DephexTwin, on 01/08/2009, -9/+122You know what will probably come out of this suit: "Sports Day" will be cancelled from now on, because they can't afford to have enough staff to properly accommodate the potential needs of every student.
Just sayin. - Ricochetbiscuit, on 01/07/2009, -13/+113Puhhhleese... I'm not sure what's more humiliating... not hearing the announcements at the event or fighting a legal battle about it. Mom sure knows how to make the scars a bit deeper.
- GoKings, on 01/08/2009, -8/+104Is she blind too? Could she not see everyone else stopped running?
- WhatPeriod, on 01/08/2009, -12/+83That creature cannot be only 13 years old.
- kp2575, on 01/07/2009, -9/+79I heard all about this....
- ryrocker, on 01/08/2009, -5/+73hmm...
if i were a deaf person...
and i wanted to know when to stop running on sports day
id LOOK AROUND AND SEE WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS DOING! - ryan83189, on 01/08/2009, -9/+69I fail to see the problem. School age child does something wrong in front of peers, her life is absolutely ruined from here on out? You ran a little further, got a little more red in the face than your friends and what, did they chuckle? If the games were so complicated surely she was not the only one confused. I used to do this all of the time, if I were in the generation in school today they would probably classify me with ADD. It is the daily mail, probably half truth or something.
- hark, on 01/08/2009, -11/+70School for the deaf pep rally:
Everyone! Screaaaam
woooooooooooooo
I CANT HEAAAAR YOU.... - uptwolait, on 01/07/2009, -4/+62I just kept running, and running....
- theHman, on 01/08/2009, -4/+53By what I understand, this event included many deaf people. She is not complaining that she did not get a signer; she is complaining that she did not get her own, individual signer. Did each of the hearing kids get their own individual coach to tell them what to do?
By the information in the article, it seems that none of the other deaf kids seemed to have a problem. If they all kept running because of a miscommunication she wouldn't have had the issue of being singled out; therefore, her continuing to run was not due to her being deaf. She's just a dumb, oblivious thirteen year old like most middle school students and she happened to make a fool of herself. Why does that mean that she deserves the hard-earned money of the people who designed an event specifically to help her, which she failed to take advantage of and pay attention during?
This is a farce. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -9/+53thats not muscle and its not stockiness ,,,thats fat
- EatingPaste, on 01/08/2009, -3/+47Gob: "It ain't easy being white"
Franklin: "It ain't easy being brown"
Gob: "All this pressure to be bright"
Franklin: "I've got children all over town" - krahzee, on 01/08/2009, -10/+53As a kid I played soccer against the school for the deaf every year. They were fine. When the whistle was blow to signal the play dead everyone on the sidline would just mimick the whistleblowing gesture to them so they would stop too. Not too hard.
Yet she sues because she did not bother to ask a teacher to gesture to her when to stop and start an activity?
It couldn't have been that hard to get on the same page for things like stopping and starting when running given that this child was learning things like science & math with no issues. So getting an explination on a complex math problem is no issue for her, but someone holding thier hand out in ths stop gesture would have been too hard to interprit?
Looks to me like the real issue is that she is overweight and out of shape, surely causing a poor athletic performance, and now she is using her disability as a crutch for that and any embarassment it may have led to. - EatingPaste, on 01/08/2009, -11/+53I think this girl has more problems than being deaf -----> Velcro shoes
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -2/+4113 years old and pushing 240lbs? Yikes! Next up: lawsuit because she didn't have a personal signer to tell her to stop eating.
- DorkyMore, on 01/07/2009, -10/+48*Is white* *is male* *is upper middle class* *has higher education*
Quit complaining, you disabled people. Buck up.
*eats hotpocket* - inhalent, on 01/08/2009, -8/+46She may have been better off running a couple of extra laps
- mithrasinvictus, on 01/08/2009, -2/+39If i were her size i'd become very suspicious if there were no one running in front of me.
- PanicAK, on 01/08/2009, -0/+32Maybe she is an excellent runner, and she was too far ahead of everyone else to notice...
Maybe not. - Nayamina, on 01/07/2009, -7/+39Not accomodating her every need?
We're not talking about someone not being there to serve her drinks and wait on her hand and foot. Just someone to explain how the damn thing works. That's like inviting a bunch of non-english speaking kids to improve international relations and not providing a translator. The whole purpose of the event was to "forge bonds between deaf and hearing pupils" - glberns, on 01/08/2009, -0/+30"Laura has since the school and currently attends City of Norwich School. Her case is the first of its kind to be won by the NCDS." What ever happened to editors...
- 1RandomNickname, on 01/08/2009, -6/+35You can't stop being deaf, but you can put down the fork.
- Krumm, on 01/08/2009, -12/+40It's not like they did it deliberately...
'Someone laughed at me because of a funny situation - waaah! - I'll file a lawsuit!"
Anyway, letting her keep running wouldn't have done any harm by the look of the picture. - saucy05, on 01/08/2009, -5/+30Damn she's 13 or is that her mom on the pic?
- NinjaGod, on 01/08/2009, -0/+24Doesn't look like she runs that much.
- kingUssop, on 01/08/2009, -12/+36Stay classy guys, making fun of a 13-year-old deaf girl is something even most kids don't do and know a lot of you are adults.
- Gizza, on 01/08/2009, -8/+32Looks to me they were doing her a favour.
- Canadian0207, on 01/08/2009, -8/+31this is the dumbest thing i've never heard in my entire life
- burden555, on 01/08/2009, -1/+20"A special education needs and disability tribunal (Sendist) found Colman Middle School, in Norwich, had unlawfully discriminated against Laura."
Is there a lawful way to discriminate? - batmanz, on 01/08/2009, -0/+18I'm gettin' tired. I think I'll go home now.
- h0ms4r, on 01/08/2009, -0/+17I accidentally the school.
- Fabbyfubz, on 01/08/2009, -4/+21No pokeflute is gonna wake this deaf Snorlax
- deathmatch, on 01/08/2009, -3/+19lol
Way to ruin Sports day. - Memnochxx, on 01/08/2009, -0/+16Sounds like it was a failure... I think.
- black27696, on 01/08/2009, -9/+25They call that the Foreign Exchange program. They learn the language (or try) in their country then go to one that speaks it. Reading lips is the same thing.
The issue is that she's suing because something wasn't totally tailored to her needs. You'll notice the article says the day was about deaf kids and normal kids together. You'll further notice that there were five signers there but there just wasn't someone for her personally. You'll notice she's the only one that decided to sue. This is a family out for cash, pure and simple.
I have a close family friend in a wheelchair that is extremely active in a variety of activities including racing. He does whatever he needs to in order to get around and handle his handicap and doesn't complain about it. He figured out how to ride escalators in the the wheelchair because he was tried of finding elevators in malls.
Everyone gets screwed somehow, none of us get cash for it until it gets labeled as a "disability" and then if we bitch enough we get paid. This case should never have made it to court. - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+15Actually yes, such as discrimination based upon performance requirements (for jobs requiring great physical strength).
- lukekim91, on 01/08/2009, -2/+17exactly. instead of me never hearing a word about this, i'm now laughing at jokes about her and feeling bad for myself and her.
spiderman popsicles were always the best because you could eat the blue bubblegum eyeballs. - nofrickenway, on 01/08/2009, -3/+18"They botched the entire event up and embarrassed her and probably another deaf kid or two in the process. "
They messed up. Don't you think that it would be more productive to try to work with the people in charge to make it work next time as opposed to making them scared to try anything? Hell, the girl could work with them and then her confidence would be built through making things better for others.
Or she could just sit around and feel sorry for herself with alot of money. - penguinofspades, on 01/08/2009, -2/+16i know absolutely nothing about special needs children. i've never been trained in handling, teaching, or accommodating them. however, last summer, i taught swim lessons to a deaf 8 year old with no outside assistance. she fit in with the class and had a great time. if an 8 year old can swim, this chick can run. or, stop running.
- lukekim91, on 01/08/2009, -1/+15dude velcro shoes are bomb. what are you going to tell me next don't wear my fanny pack with the multi-colored zipper?
- TheScogg, on 01/08/2009, -6/+20When will these greedy, self entitled idiots learn that you can't sue just because you were wronged. I've been beat up, laughed at, humiliated, and insulted - it's life, not an entitlement to a paycheck. This is an issue you take up with school administrators, so it doesn't happen next year. Now, there won't be an event next year because it's been turned into a giant liability. This is just another nail in the coffin of what our countries used to be. Now, I've got to be afraid to laught at somebody, to let my kids play on a jungle gym, to help an accident victim, to let a kid pet my dog. Good bye good times, I'll miss you.
- plainOldFool, on 01/08/2009, -2/+15So you just Ran. So Far Away?
- Pake, on 01/08/2009, -4/+17I'm assuming you didn't read the article, because FTA:
"The event was designed to forge bonds between deaf and hearing pupils but led to deep embarrassment for Laura who became an object of fun."
They botched the entire event up and embarrassed her and probably another deaf kid or two in the process. - CoreyTamas, on 01/08/2009, -1/+14Though I am not a fan of suing someone every time you have a little problem... I think that if the teachers know she's deaf and they expect her to hear an announcement, then that's stupid.
- black27696, on 01/08/2009, -7/+20He didn't call her heavy, he called her fat, idiot. The mom is obviously fat as well.
- highPhone, on 01/08/2009, -1/+14penis
- Sonixunite, on 01/08/2009, -8/+20If I were deaf I would run until I died.
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