To feel a bit disgusted by this

[picketingpanic]

NC as this is potentially outing.

My DS attends a specialist provision for children with profound, severe and complex needs. Many of the children in the building are reliant on wheelchairs and some have very limited mobility, understanding or communication. Many are attended by nurses every day at school, as they are immunosuppressed. Every single child in the building, age 3-18, is disabled in some way.

Many children will have had the jab already, due to being extremely clinically vulnerable. Nearly every parent/guardian is a carer and would have been in one of the first six groups to receive the vaccine. Staff were vaccinated early too, due to the nature of the setting.

So why the actual fuck did anti vax protestors choose to stand outside their school and picket today?

I am actually heartbroken that they could be so cruel and thoughtless. Our school community has been hit very hard by covid, some of our children have been orphaned by it.

None of the children in the building are really capable of understanding the picket, it just frightened a lot of them.

It just felt like being spat on tbh. I asked them why they were targeting a school full of disabled children and they jeered at me. It's so depressing.

Yanbu. These people are thoughtless and insensitive.

That is awful

@DeepaBeesKit

Yanbu. These people are thoughtless and insensitive.

It just broke my heart that they could not have any ounce of kindness or understanding in choosing the location. In fact they chose it because it's a school for disabled children. Which makes me feel sick.

Wow I hope this isn't real 🥺

@inmyslippers

Wow I hope this isn't real 🥺

It's 100% real

What a revolting pack of ignorant bastards.

Some people.... I'm speechless

What? Why??????

Here you can see the wheelchair adapted taxis pulling in to collect the kids. I wish it wasn't real. It broke my heart.

I just don’t get this. Why?? Nasty pieces of work

Not sure if I'd be able to keep my cool if this happened to the school my Ds attends (sen)

Completely thoughtless and selfish. That sort of commotion can be very unsettling and distressing to dc, particularly vulnerable dc who don't have the capacity to understand.

Yanbu op. I hope your dc wasn't affected too much by it all

I am so sorry

Some people are just utter shits

I didn't keep my cool. I still haven't regained it either.

Ignorant, braindead, selfish twats.

this is awful... kids would be frightened 😔

I'm so sorry. Of course, YANBU, this is disgusting. It's awful. Who is this fucking stupid? Is it over now, or do you expect them to come back? If so, can the police help?

How awful. I have no idea about the law on this but I wonder whether, if it happens again, you could call the police as it causes such distress to the children.

That's awful, ignorant twats.

I would want close up photos of their faces ans plaster it in the press. Twunts!!

To be honest I think the police should be removing any idiot who decides to campaign around schools, especially this lot.
They have scared many children by now, they do not have a heart.

It was bad enough when they did it at our village primary school - lots of the kids were scared and in tears. But this is just awful. How dare they?

YANBU.

I feel angry at anti-vaccine protestors anyway (no one is being forced to have the vaccine so what are they protesting).

But to select a school where many of the pupils are CV / CEV is dispicable.

What the actual fuck?
That's awful

Yanbu, how awful, they have completely got wrapped up in their view and can’t even see how cruel/misguided they are

That is just disgusting for the parents and for the children and workers. Life difficult enough without those idiots. Just best to ignore them, ring the police and let them deal with it as you cannot get through to that type of person and their beliefs. To target those children is shocking and disgusting. Am so sorry you had to go through this. Hope you are ok.