Way Forward with feathered friends

I cannot believe how ignorant people are! This is my sister in this picture! This is not a "treat" as you like to put it. This is an important part of opening up opportunities and giving people like my sister chance to learn life skills that they need in life and that we (able bodied, this is not a very nice term to use) all take for granted. The majority of Children, young adults and adults like my sister will never be able to get a job or even sit through an interview days like these open up their minds to other ways of learning and working. People have a huge range of disabilities you are generalising some people don't have the social skills to interact with other people they then become isolated!

But the world doesn't work like that Jenny - Robin Hill & The Charity put on the event - it would've had a finite amount of people it could take - if it was open to all on a first come first served basis them maybe only a few of the people the charity exists for would've got to do it. Therefore everyone who had made donations to that charity would've felt there money was wasted helping people they weren't intending to help in the first place. I'm utterly bemused that you had any issue with this in the first place.

Dan I am sorry you have misunderstood my point, I was in no way knocking the fact that Robin hill put on this event just saying that able and disabled children should be able to join it together, I am for inclusion and not exclusion and by doing things together we will all show more understanding and empathy to each other.

Mike crowd I am not at all selfish towards the disabled I am intact quite the opposite, I work with able bodied and disabled children every day and respect them equally as one....my point is that every child/person should be treated as an equal..

Jenny Cannell - by benefits of the able bodied I was talking about walking unaided, being able to live on your own, not needing carers to do things that most of us would like to keep personal...that kind of thing! I don't really care if you can or can't afford to take your children to falconry - I have an able bodied child and we've just been discussing what we can afford to do with her this year in the way of treats, and it was largely restricted by budget, but that doesn't matter as she'll run around carefree and just enjoy a trip to the swings. I'm sure the same can't be said for someone in a wheelchair - so they should be given a break! It's Robin Hill and a local charity doing something good for no financial gain...I can't believe you're knocking that!

No Jenny, I just used an example to an extreme to show just how selfish and uncaring you are towards the disabled.

and as you say, there is no point in continuing this conversation.

Thank you for your views

Mike Crowe, It is a shame that it appears you are incapable of holding a mature adult conversation, I have noticed you attempt to belittle the point of any person in a conversation who does not hold the same beliefs as yourself. with this in mind I feel there is no point in me participating in any further conversation regarding this matter.

I disagree with birds of prey being used in this way regardless. This is not falconry and not in the best interest of the birds.

So using finance as your back up, I should be able to take my family on a World Cruise for free because I cannot afford the finances to do it?

My family are financially 'disabled'.

Where is your self indulging argument now?
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Mike, your comments are so immature, of course I do not, I respect the fact that peoples disabilities hinder them, I am just making the point that these facilities should be available to all children, I mean we could say that coming from a home that is financially struggling is a disability to a child as they have no access to extra curricular services!

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