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shockedcanadian

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Tue Jun 18, 2013, 07:41 PM Jun 2013

Second grader in wheelchair set apart from classmates in school photo [View all]

This poor little guy just wants to belong. Brings a tear to your eye and a bit of anger for him being singled out, as if he doesn't have a difficult time already trying to fit in

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/second-grader-in-wheelchair-set-apart-from-classmates-in-school-photo-153816157.html


Class photos usually end up on the family fridge, but the snapshot Anne Belanger received of her son’s Grade 2 class in New Westminster, B.C. went straight back into the envelope in which it arrived.

The mother of Miles Ambridge was heartbroken to see that her seven-year-old boy, who has spinal muscular atrophy and, as a result, must use a wheelchair, had been placed, chair and all, far off to the side from the rest of his classmates.


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