Disability Discrimination

No two people are exactly the same; no one is raised the same as another person, no two people have the same mental acuity, and no two people have the same genetic or physical appearance. However, some people do not even have the privilege to get out of bed everyday and walk, because they instead have to climb into a wheelchair. This is just one example of a disability, but there are so many more in the world, and some people do not give disabled members of society the same opportunities they would afford to just about anyone else. Judging by the amount of awareness this social inequality is given today, there is just not enough of an audience to listen and do something about this issue. When analyzing all of the given evidence, one can easily

What most people do not know is that in our world today, people that have all of these disabilities are dictated treated poorly between their bosses at work or even their peers. There had obviously been laws in place that prevent disability discrimination, however, some people continue to go along with this social inequality. When a person is discriminated against for having a disability, being assumed to have a disability, or having a connection with a disabled person, this is considered disability discrimination. Disability discrimination can be shown in anywhere, sometimes even without the bully knowing they were doing it. Different kinds of disability discrimination include the abysmal harassment of an employee based on their disability, asking the disabled person background information on their medical conditions, separating the disabled people from everybody else, or refusing to give a person a job specifically because they are disabled. These forms of harassment are based toward disabled people in a place of work, but work is not the only situation in which this social inequality occurs. Disability discrimination happens all over the world, and in no way, shape, or form should it happen in 2017, but it

There are two laws for schools, that, in specific, talk about disability discrimination in public learning places. Section 504 is a law that expresses how people with disabilities still have a beneficial right to financially plan their future with an expert, just the same as anyone else. These financial planners can not refuse a client that is disabled. Title II expresses how public schools, libraries, and college universities are not allowed to refuse a student that is disabled. There are also many organizations like the OCR, or Office for Civil Rights, does things to stand up for people with disabilities. The do things like handling technology, athletic activity, unequal access to higher level academic courses, and so much more. So many different organizations like the OCR are helping disabled people with school, and so much more every day, and have fought to make themselves visible to the public eye. In the year of 2015, 30% of every report of discrimination had been disability based discrimination. This means that the number of disability based harassments had went up by well over 12,000 reports, ever since 2005. All of the reports were sent through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC for short. These laws and organization have been trying to do all that they could since they have