One of my students is in a wheelchair. She's the first person I've ever really personally known and interacted with who was in a wheelchair, and it's been interesting as well to see how a disabled kid gets along in a school setting, since growing up none of my classmates were ever disabled past a set of crutches for their sprained ankle.
Everyone's pretty relaxed about it. She's about ten or eleven, and she can do wheelies, sometimes her classmates play with her brakes, and when she gets a hold of my hand I can pull her down the hall. She's also wicked strong at arm-wrestling, which makes a lot of sense, if she's doing everything with her arms!
Today we were making our profiles in class, and one of the questions was, "What is your ambition?" Once I explained ambition, everyone wrote theirs down, and a little while later, I went around and asked everyone different questions from their profiles. When I asked Wheelchair Girl (tacky, I know) what her ambition was, she laughed and said, "Teacher, I want to walk!"
That one kind of shocked me. My heart kind of melted a bit and I laughed along with her. I knew she was making a joke, and it's cool that she's not shy about it, but part of me really wanted her to be able to walk someday too.
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