Eh, a lot of schools do stuff like this for certain retarded kids. I'm sure the other students were trying to do something special and nice for her. We had a retarded kid at my school (I mean, we had several, in the Special Ed program) who had a funny/cute self-chosen nickname and was just a really friendly, sweet kid who liked everyone and everyone liked him, too--the way you'd like a little kid, yes, but still. Anyway, he graduated the year I did (he was twenty-three, I think) and we gave him some kind of special popularity award or something; I don't remember what it was, but it was something our whole class voted on, and we made a really big deal out of presenting it to him and giving him a crown or something. I mean, I get your point, and I kind of agree; sometimes I think, "Wow, so we gave him a pat-on-the-head award to acknowledge that his life was never going to amount to anything, whoopee," or I question our motives a bit in giving it to him--were we doing something nice for him, or doing something to make ourselves feel better, you know? But at the same time...he was a sweet kid, and yeah, his life never was going to really go anywhere, so why shouldn't he be given a "Class Favorite Award," or something, so he can feel like a normal kid for five minutes out of his whole life? And even if our motives aren't perfect, does that really matter when it made him so proud and happy? So I dunno. You can tell I'm getting tired and should go to bed. This is way too much deep thought for FPH on a Friday night, lol.