{"id":112970,"date":"2023-01-31T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/?p=112970"},"modified":"2023-01-31T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:00:16","slug":"important-follow-post-adriel-carignan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/31\/important-follow-post-adriel-carignan\/","title":{"rendered":"An important follow up post about Adriel Carignan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi this is going to be short but an update to a post I shared with you about a month ago about young Adriel Carignan who, wheelchair bound was pretty much left out of her school&#8217;s holiday concert which consisted of children in a circle singing and dancing. The video speaks volumes. (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/03\/special-post-hope-will-read\/\">click here if you missed that post<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tdGwEKcRrAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"little girl in wheelchair gets ignored &amp; excluded from activities as teacher sings dances beside her\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The outpouring of love, support, offers to help and anger were overwhelming. So many of you emailed to see what you could do and many generously donated to the fund that was set up for her to get a new wheelchair (an all terrain version so she could join her family on their walks in New Hampshire).<\/p>\n<p>The family and I have kept in contact since this happened hoping and praying that the school would take accountability, and make amends. They did not do one thing. Not one.<\/p>\n<p>That video was one I could not &#8220;unsee&#8221; it brought me to tears every time I looked at her sweet little face, awkwardly sitting there not knowing to do. It brought about a\u00a0 fireball of emotions from such sadness to downright anger. Also as many have asked, her parents were not there. Her father works nights and her mother was home sick. A relative had brought here there. And YES, agree with everyone who says every one in that audience who stood by watching this happen is almost as guilty. Shame!<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward as of yesterday a petition has been up to hold the school, Lisbon Regional Elementary School accountable. Sadly, they have elected to do nothing about what happened. They have not issued a public apology, no explanations, and most importantly\u00a0 have not\u00a0 come forth to announce any type of training for the teachers\/staff about inclusion for every child, handicapped or not. This says a lot about the school and how they look at discrimination against those are handicapped. Not to mention, this is against a federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Their silence is deafening, and despite hundreds of calls and emails from outraged citizens, they have not returned a single one. Hence, the petition. I hope you will sign it and feel compelled to share this as far as it can go within your circles. Social media, emails, etc&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>We are giving Adriel the voice she didn&#8217;t have that night. I cannot think of anything more important right now than imploring the school to accept responsibility for what happened that night, accept that it could have been done so differently and publicly state what they are doing to effect change going forward, to be sure this never ever happens again. But to not acknowledge it in any way, is simply reprehensible. (both to the family and to concerned citizens).<\/p>\n<p>So the petition went live last night. I ask that you not only sign it, if this outraged you as it did me but to spread it far and wide however you can. Thank you in advance, I love that we can be the voice for sweet little Adriel!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112977\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.59.39-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.59.39-AM.png 447w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.59.39-AM-281x300.png 281w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/78dWYv5Q\">CLICK HERE TO SIGN<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">This is the actual link to share- <a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/78dWYv5Q\">https:\/\/chng.it\/78dWYv5Q<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/78dWYv5Q\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-112971\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.48.08-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"961\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.48.08-AM.png 1250w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.48.08-AM-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.48.08-AM-768x507.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-31-at-9.48.08-AM-1024x676.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 961px) 100vw, 961px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thank you in advance to everyone for your\u00a0 compassion and concern! Wishing everyone a wonderful day, until next time&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51533\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/besttina.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/besttina.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/besttina-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/besttina-768x286.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/besttina-500x186.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-112623\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MIMI.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MIMI.png 562w, https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/MIMI-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi this is going to be short but an update to a post I shared with you about a month ago about young Adriel Carignan who, wheelchair bound was pretty much left out of her school&#8217;s holiday concert which consisted of children in a circle singing and dancing. The video speaks volumes. (click here if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112970"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112978,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112970\/revisions\/112978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.enchantedhome.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}