oh gods.
not another one of these. please no.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/margaret-jensvold-marylan_n_921317.html
Some people might see it as a "step forward" because it's the school system being blamed, rather than "the stress of raising a child with autism." I don't. There are no excuses. Margaret Jensvold committed murder, plain and simple. As much as Karen McCarron or any other parent who has taken the life of their autistic child. The fact that she killed herself too doesn't make it any better.
we are just. so tired of sympathy being poured out for the parent no matter what the pretext. and not for the child whose life was taken away. and the emphasis on need for "more services" rather than on the child. Yes, families raising disabled children often need services that non-disabled children's families don't. (Or things that are framed as special extra services, anyway, because our society doesn't expect people to need them.) we are just really disgusted because every time an autistic child is murdered by caregivers, it seems people talk a big show about "the need for more services" and still nothing ever changes, but the murder is still treated somehow as being a "meaningful statement" and not as, well, murder.
-someone
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/margaret-jensvold-marylan_n_921317.html
Some people might see it as a "step forward" because it's the school system being blamed, rather than "the stress of raising a child with autism." I don't. There are no excuses. Margaret Jensvold committed murder, plain and simple. As much as Karen McCarron or any other parent who has taken the life of their autistic child. The fact that she killed herself too doesn't make it any better.
we are just. so tired of sympathy being poured out for the parent no matter what the pretext. and not for the child whose life was taken away. and the emphasis on need for "more services" rather than on the child. Yes, families raising disabled children often need services that non-disabled children's families don't. (Or things that are framed as special extra services, anyway, because our society doesn't expect people to need them.) we are just really disgusted because every time an autistic child is murdered by caregivers, it seems people talk a big show about "the need for more services" and still nothing ever changes, but the murder is still treated somehow as being a "meaningful statement" and not as, well, murder.
-someone