Aren’t there enough schools for the developmentally delayed in Dallas so they could have their own league to play in, much as the Special Olympics program? It’s difficult to see why such schools are allowed to compete with teams with regular athletes, who are then pilloried for running up the score. TAAPS, the TX association of private schools, needs to rethink their guidelines after this sorry episode.
This all fits in with the current trend of "mainstreaming" those students who are physically or mentally handicapped. They can't really compete, but the schools follow a game of "lets pretend" where they are placed in competition with normal students.
Of course these handicapped students really can't compete with normal students, and I'm sure it is distressful and disruptive for both kinds of students, but it fits the liberal mantra of "we're all equal (in outcome)".
This coach, running a blow-out score, violated an unwritten rule and exposed the hypocrisy, which the school system does not like.