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[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]

Wow. No. That other parent might win for most entitled person in the DC area. The proper response to that is to look that person dead in the eye and (loudly) say "You want me...to tell my disabled child he can't play anymore...because your kid wants a turn on the only accessible swing in the playground?"[/quote]

I have never actually seen a disabled child use to the disabled swing at the playground.

I would have my child get off within a minute of disabled child coming and would not bother the disabled child.

However, I think the pp saying disabled child doesn’t have to get off is also a bad attitude.[/quote]

Can you explain why you think it's a bad attitude for the disabled kid to get to play for more than a couple minutes at the playground?  If you never see kids who need the swings, that means that there are plenty of times when you go to the playground and that swing is available either right away or you can negotiate turn taking.  [/quote]

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