President of NEA Says Teachers Have to Adapt Curriculum for the “chronically ‘tarded"

[KamaAina]

"and medically annoying”

Not. The. Onion.

https://walkersvillemom.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/chronically-tarded/

The video featured comes from the YouTube account of the Campaign for America’s Future with this description:
“National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García explains the vital work of public school teachers at the Campaign for America’s Future Awards Gala October 27, 2015 in Washington, where she received on one of the organization’s Progressive Champion awards. For more details on this event, go to http://gala.ourfuture.org.”

Listen closely as she speeds up her speech pattern and begins to list the types of students that teachers have to accommodate in public school classrooms (around the 1:50 mark)....

The president of the “the nation’s largest labor union,” the group that represents over 3 million teachers, the men and women who work with our children every day, referred to children with special needs as “chronically ‘tarded and medically annoying.” AND this was during an acceptance speech for a “Progressive Champion” award!?

And we wonder why we still have to fight for inclusion….

[Gormy Cuss]

1. No words.

A teacher thinks that?

[Scuba]

2. WTF?

[LisaL]

3. What does it even mean? Tarded is not a word as far as I can tell.

[KamaAina]

4. Seems to be short for the R-word

She's trying to walk it back by saying it was "tardy", like Frothy Mixture did with "blah" people.

[jwirr]

22. No, it is a word that is often used on our children as they

walk through the halls to make them feel worse than they already feel.

[Crystalite]

5. No way! Well, here's the video (go to 1:42)

Oh this is crazy.

Here's a clip of Lile Eskelsen Garcia rattling off a list of things teachers do, fast forward to 1:42:

?t=1m42s

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Not that it excuses her remarks, but

I don't think she meant to say 'retarded.' Who would call someone 'chronically retarded?' Either someone is or they aren't; retardation does not fluctuate. I think she did mean to say 'tardy.'

[WillowTree]

13. I would bet on that, as well.

[Bradical79]

7. Freudian slip?

"chronically tardy" is what I think she meant to say. Don't know what "medically annoying" is supposed to mean.

[BlueJazz]

8. Maybe she didn't want to say compulsively late and annoyingly disrespectful

(I called up a teacher friend and she told me that) I don't know.

[Aerows]

9. I am pretty sure

she meant chronically tardy

[Walkersvillemom]

10. Context is everything

The sentence lists types of students that require curriculum modifications. Late and annoying students do not - students with intellectual and developmental disabilities and those who are medically fragile do.

[Recursion]

12. Well, the most significant factor in a student getting a PEP is having irritating parents

The parents who are most willing to get in teachers' and administrators' faces wind up with the PEPs for their kids.

[jwirr]

23. I am a social worker. In case you do not know it a child with

a disability automatically gets as PEP plan in order to help them fit into the classes they need. It is the law and with each child Medicaid or Medicare pays money for the extra services needed. They are called Title 1 etc. Mandated by the government that took the money out of state institutions and used it to get our kids into public schools.

And yes to get our children into the public school we had to sue the state for our tax money - which was being withheld for our own children and used for everyone else's children. We also had to scream and yell to even get them to recognize that our taxes were not being used to educate our children. We do not apologize for what we did to get our children included in public schools.

[KamaAina]

15. You made it to DU!

And be sure to check out our Asperger's/PDD group.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1145

[951-Riverside]

11. Nice Fox News lady hair shes sporting there

I am not shocked at all by this.

Vote her out and send her packing back to whatever Right Wing think-tank she came crawling from. The NEA can do better.

[jwirr]

24. Not at all surprising.

[Tipperary]

16. Making fun of her hair?

Seriously?

[951-Riverside]

17. Making fun of children with mental disabilities?

Seriously?

[Orrex]

18. Maybe she meant "chronically tardy?" Or "chronically traded?"

You know, like a baseball player passed all around the league?

[KamaAina]

19. Riiiight. And Sen. Frothy Mixture really did mean "blah" people.

[snooper2]

20. you are absolutely wrong, When she said chronically tarded she meant being FUCKING LATE FOR SCHOOL!

My daughter has two tardies so far since starting kindergarten.


But online SJW will not watch video, believe what is told to them, and carry on the meme! So, MOVE FORWARD AND MOVE ONWARD! If you are lucky within 24 hours she will release a clarification and you can have OP #2 LOL




Tardy is an interesting word by the way- DU LEARNING MOMENT!



Is there a plural of "tardy"?
Monday March 26th 2012
Question
Is there a plural of "tardy"?
Answer
Question

A reader asked, "What is the plural of tardy?"

Answer

The short answer to this question is tardies. But wait! Before you use the plural, read on…

Noun or adjective?
Make sure that you are using tardy as a noun, because this is rare; tardy is almost always used as an adjective meaning “late." And as an adjective, tardy has no plural form, because adjectives in English stay the same regardless of whether the noun they modify is singular or plural. In the three examples below, tardy is an adjective.
Jennifer was tardy for work almost every day. (tardy is an adjective modifying the singular noun, Jennifer)
The accountant was tardy in filing their taxes. (tardy is an adjective modifying the singular noun, accountant)
The tardy bells ring twice during the school day. (tardy is an adjective modifying the plural noun bells)

In those rare instances when tardy is used as a noun, it means “an instance of being tardy,” as in the example below.
The professor told the class that only one absence and one tardy was allowed per semester.

The plural of nouns ending in consonant + y
To form the plural of the noun tardy, follow the general rule for nouns ending in consonant + y: Delete the y and add -ies, as shown in the examples below.

Sing. Plural
baby babies
tardy tardies

I hope this helps.

[jwirr]

21. Thumbs down..off with her head. She has just angered

every organization for disabled people in this country and there are many.

She wants the money those kids bring with them but not them.

Anyone got an address?