The Pledge - end the "R" word

Last week a gentleman from the NJ Council for Developmental Disabilities visited the kindergarten class. He told the kids about a campaign to get rid of the "R" words - "retard" and "retarded." He asked them to take a pledge to not use the words and to ask others not to use the words. We are working on this campaign already and the children have decided that because we used to refer to Respect as the R word, we now have the good R and the bad R. For more information go to www.njcdd.org. Please make the pledge to eliminate these hurtful words from our language.