wjr@x.UUCP (Bill Richard) (10/11/85)
<AIDS> Bite this, line eater! Note: This is STella Calvert, a guest on this account. In article <4604@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes: >I was talking to a girl about this and she was horrified at the idea >of letting kids with AIDS attend school. She says whenever she got >in a fight she would use anything she could, which included biting >the opponent. That sounds like a very good way to pass AIDS. So, don't bite people! Don't associate with biters. But don't use this as a reason to bar non-biters from school. In my whole school career, I found it necessary to bite one person -- a teacher who hit first. If a person at school bites, send the idiot home! Not because he/she has/doesn't have AIDS. but because biting is not a useful educational activity. STella Calvert (guest on ...!decvax!frog!wjr) Every man and every woman is a star.
tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler) (10/16/85)
Just to stick my two cents worth into this discussion, I feel that there is much more danger to the child with AIDS in going to school than there is to the other kids. With a child having AIDS attending school, there is a much greater risk of the child catching what would normally be a simple childhood disease and not being able to fight it off. Take chicken pox as an example. There once was a tribe of indians living in the area of northern Iowa that was wiped out after coming in contact with chicken pox. The same thing happened in the area of Easter Island some 200 years ago. So, since chicken pox can kill those without an immunity, the child with AIDS will have the same problem. I feel that putting the child into this environment would be a greater risk to the child than that supposed risk to those around the child. Shoving a child into the school based on principles is not helping the child or solving the problem. It is mearly satisfying the egos of some folks who have no real compassion for the life of the child. T. C. Wheeler