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Students Launch Campaign to Ban ‘R-Word’
NBC News //Mar. 15, 2012 // 1:23 PM


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High school students in Plymouth, Mich., have launched a campaign against the hurtful use of the words “retard” and “retarded.” The campaign was started by a student who says she was called a "retard" because she is dyslexic and in a special-education class.