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Originally Posted by Kahuna32162
this is from the Orlando paper in their Lake County section this morning. This was from an Commentary piece written by Lauren Ritchie.
"Whack! An Orlando jury ruled that the college, run by The Villages Charter School, had to provide interpreters for the deaf in a trial that “probably cost millions” to defend, according to one of the winning lawyers.
Jurors awarded 21 of the 30 plaintiffs a total of $212,000, a different amount for each person who deliberately was denied help U.S. law requires schools to provide when accepting federal funds, as the charter school does. The jury wisely didn’t buy the poor-mouth whining that The Villages couldn’t afford it. That’s pretty much a joke in a place where the owners are fabulously wealthy."
Didn't see anything about this in the Daily Sun....go figure.
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Is the writer of this commentary at all familiar with The Villages? The statement that the "owners are fabulously wealthy" is uninformed, naive or purposefully deceitful. Sure, like any community, there are wealthy people here in TV. That is hardly the case for everyone that lives here.
Using the writers point of view, everyone who lives in TV is wealthy. The plaintiffs, I believe, live in TV. Ergo, the fabulously wealthy plaintiffs could have brought interpreters with them whenever and wherever they wanted. Right?