Cracked: Australian school told children: Dress as disabled

[AnonymousOfNorway]

As item 6 in the list of The 8 Most Insulting Attempts to Raise Money for a Cause

In a newsletter sent home to parents on Wednesday, Ramco Primary School in South Australia advised it would hold a "disability day" and fundraiser on Friday, May 29, with prizes for the "best students dressed as a person with a disability".

OK, let's see what the school said in response to the outrage

The intention of the fundraiser, devised by the school's Student Representative Council, had been for students to come in with a bandaged arm or leg, he explained. He said a new letter would be sent to parents explaining the idea more clearly.

..... that doesn't make it any better, does it really?

I can't believe I missed this story.

[Loki]

I think everyone was to busy doing EPIC FACEPALM to post it.

[Seroanth]

Best student dressed like a person WITH A disability.

Thread title means... well...

The students were sent to dress disabled people.

[AnonymousOfNorway]

I think everyone was to busy doing EPIC FACEFOOT to post it.

fixed

[toast]

I'm pretty sure that's just about the worst idea ever.

[G3n0c1de]

Rin did this.

[XtC]

The student council is stupid beyond belief for suggesting, the school is just a new dimension of fail for actually going along with it and not realizing how much emotional damage they might have made with that but shit ,it's not like they care about anything besides the money i mean it's for the children!

[DuaneMoody]

Crud-chan must be so proud of his homeland.

[Caesius]

emotional damage

I don't think "being offended" counts as "emotional damage"

[XtC]

emotional damage

I don't think "being offended" counts as "emotional damage"

Well i equate emotional damage = rage due to stupidity/insensitivity and also when your little and your shown things like these as being okay it could lead to confusion for the poor disabled lad/lass, but yeah i probably should've cleared that up. Which also raises a question, i wonder how many of the disabled saw this and raged at the school

[Solunar]

I... I can't believe this.

[chocolatebear]

I remember something similar to this in one of the sciences classes at my high school, the teacher chose about 10 different students to do 1 of three things, wear a blindfold, duct tape over the mouth, or wear ear plugs, I guess the idea behind this experiment was to see if these students could cope with the losses well or not by using head nods hand signals etc.

[Bara]

Ehh, if I understand the situation as explained correctly; the original idea/concept was from some students. I can understand young kids not having a full understanding of what they planned, but seriously, where were the school administrators and teachers? They are the adults and have the responsibility to do things like oversee student activities. The ball got dropped and I hope there is a leson learned by the school administrators, the students, and the parents. I don't see this occurance as a tragedy; I see it as something to take as a cautionary tale for school admins all over to watch what them lil' whipersnappers is up to, dagnab it!!

[-abscess]

I actually find this rather amusing....... for all the wrong reasons.

[Deimos]

While I find the whole affair not very tasteful, isn't it a bit overreacting on the political-correctness-Richter-scale?
I mean the idea was obviously dumb and why should someone take offense at such a level of stupidity?
Plus, it's such a minor occurence it's only worth a disbelieving headshake and a smile at man's neverending potential to behave like an idiot.