How This Peanut Butter Falcon Changed the Face of Education
November 12, 2019
By: Sonja Isger, The Palm Beach Post/TNS
Source: Disability Scoop
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In the movie The Peanut Butter Falcon, a young man with Down syndrome lies on a beach, stares up at the stars and questions whether he can really be a hero in pro wrestling — or anything in life. He’s more likely the bad guy, he tells his newfound friend.
“I can’t be a hero because I am Down syndrome.” Coaches, teachers, they called him retarded, he says. Retards can’t be heroes, at least that’s the message he’s gotten all his life.
That’s on-screen Zak.