Re: [Fwd: Choosing Savage as a Teacher]

July 28, 2008

Ginger,

Do you have a number for the station? I'd be happy to call or e-mail

I'd like some help with my local station. I've already had some dealing

with the station manager about this. He wouldn't even consider removing

Savage's program. He defended Savage on Friday. He needs to know this

is wrong and he must be held accountable.

I'm creating a post now with the information for my local station.

Thanks,

July 28, 2008

Just heard back from the station. They are going to have me on the air

on Wed. morning.

Ginger wrote:

My letter to Jon Van

Hooggenstyn at the station that airs Savages show locally in Portland,

Maine

When I called him last Friday, he said that they didn't know what they

were going to do about Savage yet, but were considering on doing a show

on the subject this morning by their local morning team. He said he

was interested in me participating in the broadcast, but I didn't hear

back from the station.

Here is my letter to him this morning.

Please join me in helping him understand how detrimental Savage's words

are to our kids (and our society) and encouraging him to drop the

Savage show.

Ginger

July 28, 2008

Way to go, Ginger. is there anyway the program can be streamed on line LIVE?

maurine My letter to Jon Van Hooggenstyn at the station that airs Savages show locally in Portland, MaineWhen I called him last Friday, he said that they didn't know what they were going to do about Savage yet, but were considering on doing a show on the subject this morning by their local morning team. He said he was interested in me participating in the broadcast, but I didn't hear back from the station.Here is my letter to him this morning. Please join me in helping him understand how detrimental Savage's words are to our kids (and our society) and encouraging him to drop the Savage show.Ginger

July 28, 2008

Ginger-

This guy at yesterday’s rally had a really good point. He said that people in society will assume that all children with autism are spoiled brats and this will lead to “child abuse” or harassment.

Picture this- Mom is shopping with ASD kid. ASD kid is mad because a light is broken (whatever) and starts screaming. Man comes over and tells the Mom, “shut your stupid, idiot kid up. I don’t care if he has autism- that’s all fake anyway. You are just using it as an excuse for bad parenting. You should die!”. Fight breaks out, world blows up, yatta yatta yatta... You get my point.

Good luck.

-

Way to go, Ginger. is there anyway the program can be streamed on line LIVE? maurine

My letter to Jon Van Hooggenstyn at the station that airs Savages show locally in Portland, Maine

When I called him last Friday, he said that they didn't know what they were going to do about Savage yet, but were considering on doing a show on the subject this morning by their local morning team. He said he was interested in me participating in the broadcast, but I didn't hear back from the station.

Here is my letter to him this morning.

Please join me in helping him understand how detrimental Savage's words are to our kids (and our society) and encouraging him to drop the Savage show.

Ginger

July 28, 2008

Too true.

Some one else brought up the worse senario, that some bus driver is

going to be alone with a child, where mom can't defend him, and is

going to decide that he needs disciplining.

I have a girlfriend with a VERY verbal son with extremely high anxiety

whose school driver scolded him for talking to him so much. When he

gets anxious he talks more, and when he is scolded he gets more

anxious, so the driver was just feeding the anxious talking by scolding

him for the anxious talking. The driver went as far as to record the

conversations so his mom could see how "bad" he was being because he

would not stop talking when the driver told him to. Mom tried

mediating the situation, but ultimately gave up and asked for a new

driver.

I will also be bringing up the dark ages of autism during the

Bettleheim years when mom's were to blame and children were put in

institutions horribly abused and neglected. This theory of bad child

rearing was abandoned a half century ago!

christine wrote:

Ginger-

This guy at yesterday’s rally had a really good point. He said that

people in society will assume that all children with autism are spoiled

brats and this will lead to “child abuse” or harassment.

Picture this- Mom is shopping with ASD kid. ASD kid is mad because a

light is broken (whatever) and starts screaming. Man comes over and

tells the Mom, “shut your stupid, idiot kid up. I don’t care if he has

autism- that’s all fake anyway. You are just using it as an excuse for

bad parenting. You should die!”. Fight breaks out, world blows up,

yatta yatta yatta... You get my point.

Good luck.

-

On 7/28/08 8:40 AM, "Maurine Meleck" <maurine_meleck>

wrote:

Way to go, Ginger. is there anyway the program can be streamed on line

LIVE? maurine

My letter to Jon Van Hooggenstyn at

the station that airs Savages show locally in Portland, Maine

When I called him last Friday, he said that they didn't know what they

were going to do about Savage yet, but were considering on doing a show

on the subject this morning by their local morning team. He said he

was interested in me participating in the broadcast, but I didn't hear

back from the station.

Here is my letter to him this morning.

Please join me in helping him understand how detrimental Savage's words

are to our kids (and our society) and encouraging him to drop the

Savage show.

Ginger

July 28, 2008

Ginger-

Also remember that most of the people listening don’t have a child with autism. They don’t care about autism. They are just thinking of themselves. So, think and talk about how this affects THEM. What does it say about society in general? Abuse usually starts somewhere and moves up. What group could be next?

I said to this reporter yesterday-

“Calling a mother of an ASD kid a “refrigerator mother” is like calling an African American the “N” word.”

Connect what has happened to other groups, races, religions.... It’s all hate.

The crazy guy who killed 2 people at a Unitarian Church yesterday- he hated liberals. Hate hate hate! Savage hates liberals too.

-

Too true.

Some one else brought up the worse senario, that some bus driver is going to be alone with a child, where mom can't defend him, and is going to decide that he needs disciplining.

I have a girlfriend with a VERY verbal son with extremely high anxiety whose school driver scolded him for talking to him so much. When he gets anxious he talks more, and when he is scolded he gets more anxious, so the driver was just feeding the anxious talking by scolding him for the anxious talking. The driver went as far as to record the conversations so his mom could see how " bad " he was being because he would not stop talking when the driver told him to. Mom tried mediating the situation, but ultimately gave up and asked for a new driver.

I will also be bringing up the dark ages of autism during the Bettleheim years when mom's were to blame and children were put in institutions horribly abused and neglected. This theory of bad child rearing was abandoned a half century ago!

christine wrote:

Ginger-

This guy at yesterday’s rally had a really good point. He said that people in society will assume that all children with autism are spoiled brats and this will lead to “child abuse” or harassment.

Picture this- Mom is shopping with ASD kid. ASD kid is mad because a light is broken (whatever) and starts screaming. Man comes over and tells the Mom, “shut your stupid, idiot kid up. I don’t care if he has autism- that’s all fake anyway. You are just using it as an excuse for bad parenting. You should die!”. Fight breaks out, world blows up, yatta yatta yatta... You get my point.

Good luck.

-

Way to go, Ginger. is there anyway the program can be streamed on line LIVE? maurine

My letter to Jon Van Hooggenstyn at the station that airs Savages show locally in Portland, Maine

When I called him last Friday, he said that they didn't know what they were going to do about Savage yet, but were considering on doing a show on the subject this morning by their local morning team. He said he was interested in me participating in the broadcast, but I didn't hear back from the station.

Here is my letter to him this morning.

Please join me in helping him understand how detrimental Savage's words are to our kids (and our society) and encouraging him to drop the Savage show.

Ginger

July 28, 2008

I don't think they stream the

show.

Maurine Meleck wrote:

Way to go, Ginger. is there anyway the program can be

streamed on line LIVE?

maurine

My letter to Jon Van Hooggenstyn

at the station that airs Savages show locally in Portland, Maine

When I called him last Friday, he said that they didn't know what they

were going to do about Savage yet, but were considering on doing a show

on the subject this morning by their local morning team. He said he

was interested in me participating in the broadcast, but I didn't hear

back from the station.

Here is my letter to him this morning.

Please join me in helping him understand how detrimental Savage's words

are to our kids (and our society) and encouraging him to drop the

Savage show.

Ginger

July 28, 2008

good point.

christine wrote:

Ginger-

Also remember that most of the people listening don’t have a child with

autism. They don’t care about autism. They are just thinking of

themselves. So, think and talk about how this affects THEM. What does

it say about society in general? Abuse usually starts somewhere and

moves up. What group could be next?

I said to this reporter yesterday-

“Calling a mother of an ASD kid a “refrigerator mother” is like calling

an African American the “N” word.”

Connect what has happened to other groups, races, religions....

It’s all hate.

The crazy guy who killed 2 people at a Unitarian Church yesterday- he

hated liberals. Hate hate hate! Savage hates liberals too.

-

On 7/28/08 8:58 AM, "Ginger " <yahoolawebdesign>