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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I just add the obvious, which is that this doesn’t apply when non disabled kids are waiting for the accessible swing? I have had parents come over to demand a turn for their kid on what is literally the only piece of equipment he can use, and there are other swings, slides, and climbing equipment available.

And before someone asks, the other parent watched me lift my kid out of his wheelchair into the swing, so they didn’t miss the fact there was a disability.[/quote]

No, it absolutely does not apply to you or your child.  Tell the parent “no”.  That equipment is not for their kid. [/quote]

+2 [/quote]

+100 not only do you not have to cede the swing to a non disabled kid, but if my kid is using that accessible swing they are expected to give it up the very MOMENT a disabled child wants to use it, whether they've been on it 10 minutes or 10 seconds. [/quote]

Absolutely!  [/quote]

Nope. All kids need to learn manners and sharing. They can wait their turn as well. Scorch me I don’t care. [/quote]

You do care and you care deeply what people think.  You also need attention which is why you posted.  You want to be seen as the “maverick” but nothing is farther from the truth.

I also do not believe that even you would leave a child waiting in his wheelchair with nothing else to donor play on she your child sits on the disabled swing.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who brought that up.

Plenty of people let their kids finish up their turn on the swing.  That bothers me much less than the parents who ask my kid to get off.

My kid has manners, he gets sharing.  Sharing means a child might not get to use your favorite piece of equipment, and has to be happy for a while with the slide or climbing, or something else, or a regular swing, while they wait for something else.  It shouldn't mean that every kid has a choice of multiple pieces of equipment, and one child has none to use at all. [/quote]

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