From the monstrous to the human
“No monsters here.” With these words, an Argentinian girl named Noelia Garella was turned away from a nursery school. Years later, Garella became a teacher, defying those who believed that a person with Down syndrome could neither study nor teach. Garella now says that the nursery school principal...
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| Crynodeb: | “No monsters here.” With these words, an Argentinian girl named Noelia Garella was turned away from a nursery school. Years later, Garella became a teacher, defying those who believed that a person with Down syndrome could neither study nor teach. Garella now says that the nursery school principal who called her a monster “is like a story that I read to the children… She is a sad monster, who knows nothing and gets things wrong. I am the happy monster” (Agence France Presse, 2016).Heart-warm... |
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