KATHERINE ALBUTT’S letter about being forced to stand for 25 minutes, on crutches, while taking the bus, made me squirm in shame (“Disabled, and invisible, on 39 bus,” Feb. 19). Last week, I was one of many such clueless people who sat on the Orange Line, blithely listening to my boyfriend chatting away, all the while staring into the protruding belly of a standing pregnant woman.
Albutt suggested that perhaps she was invisible to the seemingly able-bodied people who sat in the four priority seats and the surrounding seats “without batting an eyelid.”
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Lisa, people are rude and disrespectful, welcome to the new america. children are not taught to respect, we can't discipline them anymore, seems that's against the law. Once parents lost the authority to discipline, we lost our country. (that includes teachers)
we have brought up our children with entitlements, kids are never wrong, never blamed, put up on a pedestal, everyone else is wrong but them, terrible concept. I remember growing up if the school contacted home my mother would say "What did you do", today parents are the exact opposite "What did they do to you". I know a few teachers that have told me no matter what the kid does, parents never accept it and blame someone else....................and they also believe everything the kid tells them, that's dangerous, especially when they become teenagers. Bringing up my own teenagers anything above hello and goodbye i questioned.
don't expect someone to give up their seat, their too entitled, after all, they got trophies their entire life for doing nothing.