As Tennessee cogitates the word "retardation" it occurs to me, is that the most serious problem the state is experiencing?
The term "retard" means, to make slow, to hinder, delay, or slow the advance or progress of. The term "retarded" means, slowed or delayed in the development or progress especially because of mental retardation.
The term, "intellect" is the ability to reason or understand or to perceive relationships. The term "challenged" means disabled or handicapped in a specified way / physically challenged>
Replacing retarded, retardation etc with intellectually challenged is a play on words and will soon fall out of favor.
Remember in school when the readers were separated into groups, and instead of advanced, intermediate, and slow they were called blue birds, red birds, and robins? Everyone knew the blue birds were the fast readers and the robins were the slow readers.
With all the problems the state has can't the legislature find something more appropriate to do?
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Regards,
John Jenkins
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Gatlinburg, TN
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