how our campus sees students with learning disabilities

      This post may be simialr to my last one in how it talks about how students deal, work with, and treat others with disabilities except this time it's about the very kids we go to school with. Being on a campus like UCVTS there is defnitely certain "guidelines" that students should meet. We are expected to be these complete geniuses almsot no room for error. We are seen as kids who are academically advanced and gifted and the stress is on to meet this. Not only are the schools on campus in competition with each other but students within the same school, even within the same grade and friend group are in competion with each other. All this pressure to meet the status qu, imagine being someone who has a difficulty meeting this expected status qu and not even because of their academics but because of how judgmental and unaccepting students can be? It's pretty tough
      My sophomore year, it was the end of the school day and everyone is piling onto the buses. On my bus there was a young man who looked different from everyone else. It wasnt becasue he wasnt the dominate race like everyone else or because he had a weird style but because he was disabled. He was immediately  a target. He would sit alone just staring out the window listening to his music, and he wasnt even upset about it, he still kept his head and spirits high up. A girl on the bus was asking for others for help wiht her math homework. She literally asked anyone and everyone. People tried to help and explain the problem to her, but that didnt work and she was beginning to give up. The young disabled man from uc tech attempted to help her. He had heard her explain the problem multiple times and he had it all figured out, you know what she did? She just ignored him, turned the other way, and acted as if she saw and heard nothing. I heard her make a couple of witty remarks under her breath. "Oh, he's from uc tech, he's dumb" and "He's special ed there's no way he would be able to help, let alone understand". So what happens? We've arrived into town and we're now approaching  the different bus stops and it's his turn to get off and as he walks by her he hands her a piece of paper. Right on that paper was the math problem, the correct answer, and all the work and steps written out. (As I'm writing this I'm cheering hell yeah you, go you!  in my head). The girl and everyone on the bus was blown away, they assumed because he looked different, went to uc tech, and was disabled that he was dumb but look who proved them wrong? He did!
    People are so unaware and educated about people with diabilities, the types of disbailites, and how it affects someone. His face was structured diferently from eveyrone else and he was considered really awkward but that didnt make him wrong or uneducated... just different. Of course this happening to anyone is hard to deal with, I feel so bad for that boy for being misjudged but on our campus its even worse. Everyone here is a brainiac, just saying you go to uc tech instead of the carreer oreinted schools makes someone "dumb", imagine the things this boy had to deal with attenidng our campus. You think kids on this campus would be accepting and understanding because we're known as the smart and gifted kids back at old our schools and in our home towns and honestly we should be! As the gifted and extremly smart kids of union county  we should defnitely know by now not to judge a book by its cover and to be the ones who are respectful, kind, and accepting.