special schools for AIDS children - Page 2

You want to further alienate and segregate a segment of the Indian population, which to my understanding, already feels the brunt of negative feelings within the Indian populace? That's ridiculous.

HIV does not affect the cognitive skills of a child, and therefore, they should not, under any circumstances, need to be partitioned off into different schools.

If the students and parents are so worried about their safety, slap a bloody banana into their hands and teach them how to use a condom.

Someone got me wrong here - I am not the one speaking of segregation - the so-called psuedo society has already segregated them and is bent on humiliating them, and insulting them. I am only talking of insulating them from such things, protecting them from such things. Except for some people in any part of the world, still there are lot of stigmas in the society about a lot of things. Being HIV+ is one of them. A case in point is the kids being kicked out of school in Kerala and AP - which are the reported incidents. And what has the country come to, if 5-year old kids have to go on hunger strike to be reinstated to school. And after they have been reinstated, the other kids are giving them the silent treatment and parents are sceptical. Is this good? What is the alternative? It is very good to talk of acceptance; who is going to take up the cause? Who will follow it? Who is going to lead this change? Even in the US it took a while for "Ryan" a HIV+ child to go back to school and that only after they provided him separate toilets and stuff. You can check the NEW YORK TIMES archives for the case of Ryan. However, in India, with the state of public health being as it is, and the schools being as there are - how do you think this model will work?

I am not the one offering segregation solutions, segregation is already prevalent, turing a blind eye to it and arguing that it does not exist is not going to remove it from our society. We need to face it and offer plausible solutions.

I might look like I am preaching, but what I am trying to do is only to answer to people who are blaming of offering segregation as a solution.