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The Preakness is a once-a-year event. In an average Maryland school year, or 180 days a year, there are way more people in way more crowded venues per day. Learning increasingly be done online, and not every kid does well in a traditional school setting, anyway (and especially students with disabilities do poorly in traditional schools settings compared to other students, mainly because their peers as well as those who are supposed to be their educators often try to exclude them and otherwise bully them. That is thankfully much harder to do to a student when there’s a paper and/or a computer forensics trail, and authorities can get involved if someone needs to be held accountable for cyberbullying a student while he’s trying or she’s trying to learn.). Think about that before you criticize somebody whom has to consider 24 school districts state wide.
As for me, I still take Howard CC classes online, and last time I tried on campus was miserable – mainly because of an ablestic professor and one of her assistants. The worst part is that she knew that I have disabilities in advance (She asked each student in the class on a form which she handed out if there were going to be any problems that might affect the student’s performance in the class. My cerebral palsy and men’s wellness is, including OCD/Anxiety, were not in known her. As for her assistant, that she’s another discussion is sufficient to say.).
I’ve also dealt with ableists at HCC even online—and one situation I was able to stop because I was able to threaten legal action and had an email trail (which I could’ve printed out if I needed to print it out) to help me (and even though I still can’t drive yet, someone would’ve hopefully done the right thing and given the paper trail to whomever it needed to be given should the situation have escalated to that). I can imagine, then, what the kids and adult students who don’t have that option – especially if they’re more vulnerable to something like COVID-19 — would have to endure if they didn’t have the online-learning option or another non-traditional option—and given the cases in the news, that might include their peers deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 or other viruses.
PS I will never forget when another HCC professor exclued me from an activity that involved tying shoes of all things—she didn’t even try to ask if I can do it – and even refused to help me up when I fell in the hallway one time—as she just walked right on by me, and she had seen me fall. That’s part (and what I subsequently endured is also part) of why I can imagine what kids and adult students who don’t have the options that I have might endure even worse than I endured — and anyone deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 might be among that.
As for me, I still take Howard CC classes online, and last time I tried on campus was miserable – mainly because of an ablestic professor and one of her assistants. The worst part is that she knew that I have disabilities in advance (She asked each student in the class on a form which she handed out if there were going to be any problems that might affect the student’s performance in the class. My cerebral palsy and men’s wellness is, including OCD/Anxiety, were not in known her. As for her assistant, that she’s another discussion is sufficient to say.).
I’ve also dealt with ableists at HCC even online—and one situation I was able to stop because I was able to threaten legal action and had an email trail (which I could’ve printed out if I needed to print it out) to help me (and even though I still can’t drive yet, someone would’ve hopefully done the right thing and given the paper trail to whomever it needed to be given should the situation have escalated to that). I can imagine, then, what the kids and adult students who don’t have that option – especially if they’re more vulnerable to something like COVID-19 — would have to endure if they didn’t have the online-learning option or another non-traditional option—and given the cases in the news, that might include their peers deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 or other viruses.
PS I will never forget when another HCC professor exclued me from an activity that involved tying shoes of all things—she didn’t even try to ask if I can do it – and even refused to help me up when I fell in the hallway one time—as she just walked right on by me, and she had seen me fall. That’s part (and what I subsequently endured is also part) of why I can imagine what kids and adult students who don’t have the options that I have might endure even worse than I endured — and anyone deliberately trying to infect them with COVID-19 might be among that.
