Meet @LoriKemp, right wing q-anon cult lady currently having a frothing tantrum over a tweet I posted yesterday about, kids in my son‘a mask-optional school are mostly opting to wear their masks. Here’s her response to their CHOOSING to mask.
Aaawww, ya gotta love the hatefulness of right wing “Christian love”
Being called “mentally ill” by a q-anon cultist who think Tom Hanks kills babies and drinks their blood, who has this big of a tantrum about kids choosing to wear masks, is a whole new level.
More ableism from the fair Lori, right in her profile, again, targeting people with mental health diagnoses.
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@maxeden99 refuses to answer me, but I know the agenda of he & his cohorts. He thinks the disability community writ large who’ve spent 50 years fighting for our inclusion & rights will stand down and let he and his pals politicize and dismantle IDEA @BobbyScott@DonBeyerVA
@maxeden99 and his friends at conservative think tanks think they have the power to defang the ADA by stripping it of the ability to enforce it. He and his partners at @AEIeducation have an agenda alright, and 7.1 million disabled children in America are blocking that goal.
I didn’t know who Mr. Eden was until he testified in front of a House education subcommittee in which he blamed curtailing the use of dangerous restraints and seclusion of disabled children in Broward County as the cause of the Parkland shooting. When I confronted him about it
@maxeden99 I’ve read your book. There was nowhere in the book where restraint & seclusion of Cruz would have changed events at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas. I’d love to debate you. Would you debate me if I find a forum to host it? The central thesis of your book is to dismantle IDEA
You’re talking about 7.1 million US school kids who have access to FAPE bc of 504 & IDEA. A population far more likely to be victims of bullying/violence than to be perpetrators of it. And it’s GENERAL Ed, not “normal ed.” 61 million Americans are disabled. Disability is normal.
You used a whole lot of anecdotal evidence from non-experts but proffered no actual studies to support any of your claims. I’d like to go chapter by chapter of your book and point out why I not only think it’s wrong, but dangerous. If I find a forum, will you debate me?
Our school district in VA went masks-optional today. Of the 44 students I saw when dropping off my son to his middle school, 100% of the 44 were wearing masks. My son told me he will continue masking to protect disabled kids. It’s sad middle schoolers get it as adults shriek.
This is one instance where I hope peer pressure is a thing.
Seriously? Why are right wingers and mask-holes stinking up my feed? I swear to god, the mask-holes are a whole special kind of asshole.
“School choice” proponents wax prolific on listening to parents, but thousands of parents of disabled and Black children who’ve brought bills to Congress that end criminalizing childhood, and ending the school to prison pipeline, and they are fighting AGAINST parents. 1/5
Education profiteers, and their enablers, trying to privatize education, have a vested financial interest in dismantling IDEA, pushing the narrative disabled kids are dangerous and need to be segregated for the safety of non-disabled children. 2/5
They know children w/IEPs cost, on average, 7 times more to educate than non-disabled students in the US. In order to profit off education, they have to eliminate federal laws forcing schools to accept & accommodate disabled students, hence their goal of defanging IDEA & ADA 3/5
I’ve called/emailed @GlennYoungkin campaign starting on Oct 17, then his office as Gov-elect & Governor to plead w/them on disability rights issues. I’ve not received a single call or email back for my numerous inquiries. I can show receipts for emails I sent as far back as Oct
I guess the listening to parents mantra doesn’t extend to parents of disabled children who want to discuss why much of his ideology will cause harm to disabled kids. The listen to parents mantra of @GlennYoungkin doesn’t apply to me. How many have reached out and gotten no reply?
@GlennYoungkin what does a parent of a high support needs disabled child have to do to get an audience w/you or someone from your admin? I’ve called & emailed and received no response. I’ve been ghosted. Didn’t you win on listening to parents? You’ve yet to listen to this parent
@maxeden99 is a typical supporter of “school choice,” which is all about privatizing and profiting off education. These folks attack IDEA and say inclusion of disabled kids in schools is “dangerous,” because they can’t profit as much off schools if forced to comply w/IDEA or ADA
@AEI neocon “think-tank” that pays @maxeden99 mightily to stan for privatized schools has charged him w/criminalizing disabled children. Only by dismantling IDEA and disability inclusion can his benefactors, school profiteers, use schools as a get-rich-quick scheme.
The whole “school choice” movement isn’t about choice for parents of disabled kids. No, @maxeden99 thinks kids like my autistic son need to be segregated & rotting in seclusion cells so his school profiteer pals profit more from privatized schools. Disabled kids cost too much.