Teachers Against Disabled

From DS:
"Teachers Fight Special Needs Accommodation"

A teachers group is fighting a plan to allow a student with a disability to use a faculty restroom, all because they say the accommodation violates their right to exclusive facilities. Eighteen teachers — including two special educators — signed a petition filed alongside a union grievance after administrators opted to allow a student at Park Elementary School near Pittsburgh to use the faculty restroom, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The student has a physical limitation, school officials say, which makes it difficult for the child to climb stairs needed to access the student facilities. The school’s bottom floor does not have a student restroom nor is there elevator access. Teachers at the school argue the plan violates a provision of their contract stating that the school will provide “lavatory facilities exclusively for employees’ use.” School officials, however, say the building has other faculty-only restrooms and the district has an obligation to “meet the needs of students with disabilities.” The Steel Valley school board voted unanimously Thursday night to deny the teachers’ grievance and allow the student to use the faculty restroom, the Post-Gazette reports.

^ I am glad the school board denied these 18 teachers' request. They (the teachers)  are clearly self-centered, bigots who only care about themselves rather then the children they are supposed to be teaching. The fact that there are other faculty-only restrooms they could use while the disabled student only has the ability to use the one in question makes me disgusted. If I had a child (disabled  or not) with one of these 18 teachers I would remove them from their class.  I wouldn't want one of these arrogant,  lazy, anti-disabled people to teach my child their horrible ways. I hope the school board or the State Education Department looks more closely into these 18 teachers (especially the 2 special educators) to see if there are any other ways they are working to harm the children in their school. I can't imagine how the kid with disabilities is feeling knowing that there are 18 so-called educators (some which he/she may have - especially the special educators) that have fought against him/her merely because they are too lazy to use another faculty-only restroom. There is a special place in hell for these kind of people (people in authority who abuse that power for their own good.) ^

http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2015/03/26/teachers-fight-accommodation/20162/