{"id":330742,"date":"2010-02-17T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/students-campaign-to-stamp-out-the-r-word-comment"},"modified":"2010-02-17T11:01:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:01:44","slug":"students-campaign-to-stamp-out-the-r-word-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/330742","title":{"rendered":"Students campaign to stamp out the R-word COMMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMMENT ON THIS STORY<\/a><\/p>\n

\nBernie Tafoya reporting <\/p>\n

(WBBM) — <\/p>\n

<\/strong>At Schaumburg High School this afternoon, several teams of students will present their proposed campaigns to try to get fellow students to stop using the word \u201cretarded\u201d when talking about people with intellectual disabilities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nNine teams of students in Jessica Wienke\u2019s Leadership for Life class will present their proposed campaigns today before a dozen judges, including some from the Special Olympics.<\/p>\n

\nThe competition is part of the Special Olympics effort called \u201cSpread the Word to End the Word\u201d.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\nSpecial Olympian and Roosevelt University student Daniel Smrokowski recently talked with the Schaumburg High students and told them how hurtful the word \u201cretarded\u201d can be.\u00a0 He says, \u201cThere\u2019s no need to use this word because all we do is smile and love\u201d.<\/p>\n

\nSmrokowski says he doesn\u2019t remember being called the \u201cr\u201d word, as he puts it, but he says his parents have told him of times they heard others use it against him when he was younger.<\/p>\n

\nTeacher Jessica Wienke says the proposed student campaigns are very creative, including one group that \u201cis doing \u2018respect, rejoice, rejuvenate\u2019, anything but retarded\u201d.<\/p>\n

\nShe says, \u201chigh school kids and lots of people, in general, throw around \u2018that\u2019s so retarded\u2019, \u2018that\u2019s so gay\u2019 without really any thought to how that might affect people.\u00a0 What (her students) really want to do is help people realize that that\u2019s a slur\u201d. <\/p>\n

\nThe winning campaign will be used in the weeks to come to try to change attitudes among the entire Schaumburg High School student body.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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COMMENT ON THIS STORY Bernie Tafoya reporting (WBBM) — At Schaumburg High School this afternoon, several teams of students will present their proposed campaigns to try to get fellow students to stop using the word \u201cretarded\u201d when talking about people with intellectual disabilities.\u00a0 Nine teams of students in Jessica Wienke\u2019s Leadership for Life class will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}