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Native kids with disabilities were held in wooden boxes | schools on St. Regis Mohawk Reservation locked Native kindergarteners in wooden crates like animals. In 2025. Not 1825. Fucking 2025. (www.npr.org)
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The reservation schools might be "officially" shut down, but the colonizers keep showing how they think of Natives as less than human.

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[–] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

What the actual hell?? I saw this article earlier and thought it was like... a historical thing that happened. Not LAST YEAR. What the fuck

EDIT: this was in New York. Everyone loves to act like New England is so progressive but what the fuck is this?? Also - the staff members who built the fucking boxes have not been fired. Those motherfuckers should never be allowed to work with children again.

EDIT 2: Here is a link to their Board of Education and the corresponding email address.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It took until 2025 for Oklahoma to pass legislation prohibiting teachers from hitting kids with disabilities. Still allowed to hit other children, they just finally came around to the idea that you can't paddle the autism out of a kid.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago*

    Re: your edit #1, this is far upstate NY, near the Canadian town of Cornwall. I've visited a bit west of there, in Jefferson County, New York (south of Gananoque, Ontario) and by golly it was chockful of MAGA signs. NY is more than the NYC, Albany and Buffalo metro areas, but since most people live there, that's what tends to dictate state policy. Despicable behaviour like that in the article towards Indigenous residents tends to happen at the fringes, unfortunately making it easy to miss from afar.

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