A group of students with disabilities visited a Cracker Barrel in Waldorf, Maryland, and were refused service, according to school officials, leading to community outcry and a planned protest.
Charles County Public Schools superintendent Maria V. Navarro wrote in a statement Thursday that 11 students with disabilities and seven staff members visited the restaurant two days earlier. The field trip was part of a community-based instruction program meant to hone life skills, including interacting with others in public spaces like retail shops and restaurants.
“Pushed off to the side and just not even paid attention to,” Reed said. “Only thing they wanted to go in there and to do was eat some food and enjoy their time there and learn from it.” “Just because they have different abilities than we do doesn’t mean that they’re less than we are,” Penrod told NBC Washington. “They deserve to be treated like human beings, they deserve to be loved, they deserve to be cared for. They deserve to have morale given to them.
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