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Girl with no arms and legs says cheerleading try-out is unfair after she fails to make school squad
Daily Mail ^ | 7/13/11 | John Stevens

Posted on 07/14/2011 2:31:36 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Nebraska girl born with no arms and legs has blamed unfair scoring after she failed to make her school's cheerleading squad three years in a row.

Julia Sullivan, 16, has complained to the school board after she said she was given 'no accommodation for her disability' during try-outs.

The wheelchair user did not make the team after she received a low score in the jumps/kicks category of the trials.

Miss Sullivan got her highest marks in the communication skills and enthusiasm/spirit categories.

The Aurora High School student, who said that she likes to dance, said: 'I just think it would be fun.'

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To: NCLaw441
Don’t you have to see the instruments?

How does a blind person read a book?

181 posted on 07/15/2011 7:36:04 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Yeah, well, I’d like to be a supermodel, but they’re discriminating against me for being a 5’1”, middle-aged, non-drop-dead-gorgeous woman. We can’t all do everything we want to do. Get over it, honey.


182 posted on 07/15/2011 7:57:45 AM PDT by Nea Wood (Silly liberal . . . paychecks are for workers!)
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To: antiRepublicrat

You posted: How does a blind person read a book?
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I don’t see how that compares to flying a plane? I could ask, “How does a blind person catch a baseball?” Which would be a closer analogy than reading a book. I understand that aircraft instruments might be able to be made in some sort of Braille form, or perhaps they could “talk” (although there are several instruments that need to be “read” pretty much at the same time (altimeter, airspeed indicator and artificial horizon, to name three). But even in IFR conditions there is taxiing and at least some need for vision, especially at landing.


183 posted on 07/15/2011 8:43:23 AM PDT by NCLaw441 (I before E except after C, or when sounded as A in neighbor and weigh. Isn't that WEIRD?)
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To: John Semmens

C’mon John, you wrote this - you know you did. :-D


184 posted on 07/15/2011 9:47:36 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Zeppelin

So dark.

So awesome.

Hehehehe.


185 posted on 07/15/2011 9:50:53 AM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
She could audition for the role of the Black Knight in the "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" remake

"Alright, we'll call it a draw."

186 posted on 07/15/2011 9:58:31 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NCLaw441
I could ask, “How does a blind person catch a baseball?”

Beeper ball. I had a blind friend who played little league.

But even in IFR conditions there is taxiing and at least some need for vision, especially at landing.

If a modern jumbo jet can land itself purely by instruments, where is the need for sight? A blind pilot would need help taxiing though.

My whole point here was just that you can be surprised by the number of things disabled people can do given modern technology. There's a debate now about a runner who lost his legs and got them replaced with high-tech running legs, given that he's actually competitive with regular runners. OTOH, there's nothing that'll let this girl perform cheerleading gymnastics short of becoming the Bionic Woman, and we're not quite there yet.

187 posted on 07/15/2011 10:19:19 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: NCLaw441
“How does a blind person catch a baseball?”

Well, when you find out how, can you go and teach that to the Chicago Cubs players?

188 posted on 07/15/2011 10:23:14 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: antiRepublicrat

Get the girl the legs and the arms and let her try out. I am all for that.

As for the plane flying, I’ll let you be the passenger on the first blind pilot/co-pilot flight. I hope the runway alignment goes well...


189 posted on 07/15/2011 5:37:17 PM PDT by NCLaw441 (I before E except after C, or when sounded as A in neighbor and weigh. Isn't that WEIRD?)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Can’t resist...

She should have tried out for the Quad-Squad.


190 posted on 04/11/2012 3:59:52 AM PDT by Makana
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