Comments on: Students choose classmate with DS as homecoming queen http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/12/students-choose-classmate-with-ds-as-homecoming-queen-3435/ Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pamela Wilson http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/10/12/students-choose-classmate-with-ds-as-homecoming-queen-3435/comment-page-1/#comment-2935 Pamela Wilson Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:20:50 +0000 http://www.patriciaebauer.com/?p=3435#comment-2935 When my son was a baby, I was holding him in my arms in a parking lot in our neighborhood as the local high school's homecoming parade passed by. I remember looking so closely at the faces on the floats for a student with Down syndrome, and then thinking -- of course, there will not be any kids with Down syndrome on any of the floats. Ouch. He's grown now. His mainstream classmates in high school, some lifelong friends from preschool and kindergarten, naturally expected him to be there in homecoming parades with them. Or maybe because he had an interest, they were there with him. Kristin is a lovely queen. Thanks for sharing the story. When my son was a baby, I was holding him in my arms in a parking lot in our neighborhood as the local high school’s homecoming parade passed by. I remember looking so closely at the faces on the floats for a student with Down syndrome, and then thinking — of course, there will not be any kids with Down syndrome on any of the floats. Ouch.

He’s grown now. His mainstream classmates in high school, some lifelong friends from preschool and kindergarten, naturally expected him to be there in homecoming parades with them. Or maybe because he had an interest, they were there with him.

Kristin is a lovely queen. Thanks for sharing the story.

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