— English Version —<\/p>\n
I must admit to have been in awe with horror when I read about this episode…and then I sat back and meditated the whole ordeal for a few weeks…<\/p>\n
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May 20, 2013 Almeria, Spain<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hotel CaboGata Plaza Suites <\/strong>refused a reservation for a group of “children<\/strong>” who were planning on celebrating the end of their school year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Now reading this first sentence, what comes into mind?!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They were wild Seniors (18 year olds), wanting to have “a blast” awaiting their Graduation Day?<\/p>\n A group of teenagers wanting to visit Oasys Theme Park<\/span> where the movie “Indiana Jones<\/em>” was filmed or the Texas Hollywood Amusement\/Theme Park<\/span>, again for the Western lovers wanting to play cowboys and Indians down in the lobby?<\/p>\n Toddlers with their parents, nannies and …..oh, whatever….the list isn’t that long because sincerely Almeria isn’t Madrid<\/strong>, Barcelona<\/strong> or…..València<\/strong>!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n No, the children were with Down Syndrome<\/span><\/strong>, big deal, right?!<\/p>\n NO……wrong, at least for these arses!!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The hotel said that it would NOT <\/strong>board the children because “these kind of people might annoy other guests<\/em>“.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Management at the time being has “apologized” for the incident saying that it was “a misunderstanding<\/em>“. They also said “In 35 years of business we have never refused access to guests with Down Syndrome, they have been, are, and always will be very welcome<\/em>“.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why would someone even need to say this…or think it?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I guess that they haven’t heard of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities<\/span><\/strong>. The international law prohibits “all discrimination on the grounds of disability<\/em>“.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Must I say more?!<\/p>\n Yes, I must…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n VERGOGNA<\/strong>………<\/p>\n <\/p>\n HP<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" — English Version — I must admit to have been in awe with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heatherparisi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}