I’m quite familiar with snowball fights. I’m also familiar with separating one child out from the group, teasing him, and pelting him with snowballs. And I’m familiar with the age old methods of teaching children to turn a bad situation to their advantage.
These parents were not asking to have their son treated different. On the contrary, they want their son to be included, not excluded. It’s really not complicated.
The kiddo was included.
It was only the obsessive focus of his mother who found the picture inadequate because the bleachers and wheelchair combined to have him not precisely as bunched in as the kids on the bleachers. IMO making a federal case out of it shows that reasonable efforts at inclusion will never be good enough for some families.