- Target:
- U.S. Congress
- Region:
- United States of America
While growing up, Ias a disabled person, experienced quite a few 'differences' in my education because of my apparatus (a wheelchair & walker). I was treated like an outsider by my classmates and a bother by 2 or 3 of the faculty members . College was surprizingly similar...
I would like to propose a change in the way society looks at people with disabilities. We are not to be stared at by little children, forced to use entrances at the sides or back of buildings, or be labeled as mentally deficient or diseased.
I'd like to see an education system in which children are taught about disabilities and accept people with them.
We, the undersigned, call on the Congress of the United States of America to eliminate discrimination against people with dishabilles.
This includes, but is not limited to bullying, workplace discrimination, handicap entrance placement, elevators, proper education about disabilities and people with them, and the "R Word."
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The Stop Treating People With Disabilities Like Second Class Citizens petition to U.S. Congress was written by Joe Landriscina Jr. and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.