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From: 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET (Bill Gorman)
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Subject: discrimination: schools of choice
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Date: 10 May 91 15:53:59 GMT
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>Only in Colorado ... do our lilly-white middle-class bigot legislators
>pass bill after bill discriminating against one minority after another.
>Here's their latest effort ... it's ok to have schools-of-choice, so
>long as you are part of the majority without disabilities ...

Random thoughts:

     This is just another manifestation of the thinly-veiled hatred
for the disABLED that permeates the TAB community. The recent threads
on airport security and euthanasia are good examples of the outward
effects/manifestations of this TAB attitude.

     Such a law is probably illegal under the ADA.

     If they can't afford elevators, let 'em cut back a bit on tax-funded
toys for the TABs; football, for instance.

     If the disABLED are forced to select their school-of-choice from a
subset consisting of, say, 40% of all TAB-accessible
public schools, then the disABLED taxpayer(s) should be entitled, IMHO, to
a refund of their school taxes equal to 60% of the full tax bill.

     The whole thing sounds like a class-action suit begging to be filed.

Sez me,

W. K. (Bill) Gorman