Oh is it Tuesday Nice Time already? Then it is time to have a story about someone NOT being AWFUL! (With a little “guidance” from the Justice Department.) And that is why you are about to read about a 13-year-old boy who is being admitted to the elite Milton Hershey School (yes, funded by the candy company’s trust) for disadvantaged kids even though he has AIDS, and they had denied him entry based just on that fact, out of deference to the health and safety of their other students, but now somebody (the Justice Department) explained the law to them, and they are letting the boy in and they are sorry they didn’t at first, and man, Big Government just ruins stuff for everyone (who wants to discriminate against a 13-year-old boy with AIDS), doesn’t it?
We will ignore the part of the story where the school defends its previous denial of the boy — again, based solely on his HIV status, they admitted it — and we will ignore every other part of the story that we want to ignore, as well. What part of TUESDAY NICE TIME do you not understand???
“Although we believed that our decisions regarding Abraham Smith’s [a pseudonym] application were appropriate, we acknowledge that the application of federal law to our unique residential setting was a novel and difficult issue,” Colistra said. “The U.S. Department of Justice recently advised us that it disagrees with how we evaluated the risks and applied the law. We have decided to accept this guidance.”
Look at those thugs in the government, telling a private school what students it can deny based on federal anti-discrimination law! Where does it get off, and etc? OH RIGHT, it gets off on ensuring equal rights for all Americans or something, pffft. God, it is like it is not even 1989 anymore. Whatever.
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What is this, the 80's?
I'm sure they're preparing the lead lined coffin as we speak.
Ronnie Raygun would've sent this kid to a school in Africa.
Seriously. I feel like it's time for a Very Special episode of Mr. Belvedere to teach us how to be nice to others.
Did these administrators miss the enrichment program in the gym? I think it was called, "Weeping Girl who Only Did it that One Time Explains, 'You don't get AIDS from the school toilet.'"
Goddamn, Rachel Quaintance & Hal Sparks hope so; they need the work.
I'm sure they would have had no problem admitting the kid in if he had Ebola or the Black Plague, but AIDS is a SEXY DISEASE!!!*
*many times it is not…
Help me out here, I went to public school. Is "do you have AIDS?" a common question on private school applications?
Walker told them he had AIDS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdsTUcuD7YA
Thumbing this because — you're back. Welcome.
Tom Hanks would be proud.
It would be really unfair not to let "Abraham" go to school there when all the girls are fucking crawling with cooties.
I was reading yesterday about a charter school in LA (of course) that has a strict policy of kicking out all pregnant girls — and forcing girls they suspect of being pregnant to take pregnancy tests and share the result. if they refuse to take the test or share the result, expelled. Isn't it awesome how they're protecting everyone in the school from pregnancy cooties?
Is this Abraham kid of African-American extraction? Because the AIDS excuse might have just been a smokescreen.
Maybe he's a Jew?
I'm pretty sure they're still going to make sure he uses his own bathrooms and water fountains.
For, you, know, hygiene reasons.
And ride in the back of the school bus.
Geez, rough admission process. My high school just checked me for crotch rot.
That was nuse Jerry Sandusky, if I'm not mistaken.
At least they're not sending the kid to Penn State.
I can't wait for Limbnuts obligatory Hershey joke. Russ is sooo funny.
A few years ago I looked at the financial reports for the Hershey Trust, and its not a pretty picture. The Trust receives millions of dollars in dividends from Hershey stock, and then fully supports the students at the school.
The problem is there just aren't that many students at the school. Again, it was a few years ago, but from memory the Trust has several hundred thousands of income for each student. It could be sending them to Harvard or Stanford – with plenty of money left over for thousands more students.
The Board of Directors is "self perpetuating" – meaning the existing directors elect new ones. This is a formula for an old boy network.
Some day the State of Pennsylvania and the IRS are really going to tear into this, and the results are going to be ugly, indeed.
There's something that stinks to high heaven here, and I am pretty sure it's the chocolate…(with a sprinkling of graft?).
Right-wing GOPtards seem to infiltrating various trusts and boards around the country (Komen Foundation, I'm looking at you), and wreaking their peculiar brand of wingnut havoc. State university governing boards, in particular, are vulnerable to idiot trustees appointed by teabagging governors, as U-VA found out recently. (Conservatard billionaire donors, trying to push their politics, are also a big part of the problem.)
As long as the Hershey Trust isn't as bad as the Second Mile, they'll be fine. Hell, given how little mind then Commonwealth AG/now Governor Corbett gave the Sandusky investigation, I bet the Hershey trustees could be flaunting their Mr. Good bars to every minor in the Commonwealth & not get in trouble.
So this school…on the Hershey Highway?
Probably. Literally.
Allergy warning:
Hershey School Decision Board may contain nuts.
And Dahmer. I think he preferred a zinfandel with his treats.
Hershey chocolate may contain chocolate. Or not.
Crappy chocolate.
Sour, waxy and yucky.
(Maybe it was better back in the day.)
You got that right. It's disgusting. And their happy, smiley commercials make me want to puke.
In Arkansas a teacher,and principle a few years ago sent a young boy home because he was not circumcised.Now that's discrimination!
Did anybody think to ask how they knew this?
I hate to rain on this parade, but the story says the lad is HIV-positive. He does not have AIDS and frankly, I am PISSED that our Wonkette does not seem to know the difference. In 2012.
Whoa….let's hold off on this lynching…but W-kette does have some 'plainin' to do….
Lynching? Really?
W-kette took a truly feel-good story from yesterday's news, and "upgraded" this kid's HIV status to AIDS for yucks. Not smart or not cool–you decide.
And I don't see no 'plainin' going on here since I pointed the error out.
Now all of those students will die of AIDS when he coughs on them, that is sad.
Liberals, can their rampage of evil ever be halted?
Tuesday Nice Time – does that mean we can only have nice things on Tuesdays?
Good thing they changed their minds!
Elton John was ready to come down there, and kick some ass!
Wake me when Mittens criticizes the Justice Department for infringing on Republitards' right to be hateful dumbfucks.
You won't get much rest…
Don't those people remember Ryan White? Shame on you, Hershey. It isn't 1985 anymore.
Rep. Larry Pittman wants to string this kid up also. And all his teachers, lawyers, etc.
Candy coded snark is evading me more so than usual this morning. Chocolate's great and all but it's kind of early for sweets. I think I'd have been better off launching my Tuesday nice-time same as last Sunday's, with a mimosa and a book and Olympics on tv with the sound turned down.
OT
I just watched Rafalca, (so I'd know what dressage actually is).
Wow!!!! My brain is going to explode!!
Waaaay stupid!
(I can only guess that a ridiculous, ol boys network made this an Olympic sport.)
"“The U.S. Department of Justice recently advised us that it disagrees with how we evaluated the risks and applied the law. We have decided to accept this guidance.”
I.e., we're going to get our asses kicked hard if we don't let him in.
Hey, they're trying to teach an important life lesson here: if bad things happen to you, even if you're not responsible, others can discriminate unfairly against you.
In further concessions to reality, The Milton Hershey School today announced that it is dropping all sponsorships and deals and promotions with Chick-fil-A, the Boy Scouts of America and WalMart. In addition, the School has donated $1 million to worldwide AIDS/HIV research. The school has also issued an apology, noting its extreme backwardsness, redneckness, discriminatory policies, and general stupidity and ignorance.
Hey, neat — sometimes even charities devoted to helping the poor and disadvantaged will do the right thing — once they're staring down a can of whupass.
Also, per the article, Abraham Smith's lawsuit is still ongoing, as his lawyer explained that the school is sitll responsible for the harm it caused when it wasn't complying with the law, even though it is now. And only a damn fool would take a promise in exchange for dropping a suit.
So they are concerned for their health and safety because what, they plan on having unprotected anal sex with him? Mouth to mouth kissing after a particularly vigorous toothbrushing that leaves pink in the sink? Ritualistic team hand cutting to bond each other as blood brothers?
Interesting school.
And so this is the end of our story. And everyone is dead from AIDS.
HIV-positive is not Aids, and you don't get either through just being in the room with a person, am I right?
Obviously you've never had AIDS, so you just don't "get it."
I still cry every time I think of Ryan White.
Well, the Government is sure gonna be sorry when the zombies come streaming out of that school to devour the rest of us!
well now i have to go listen to team america again for sure.
Can't snark about AIDS.
Is this kid a Black Panther or something? That would explain why Eric Holder just loves him SO MUCH.
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