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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.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: blackdog

Why yes...yes I do!!!!

CHA-CHINNNNNGGGGG!!!!!!


101 posted on 07/14/2011 3:14:17 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Publius Valerius

A bullhorn and duct tape would do nicely.


102 posted on 07/14/2011 3:14:17 PM PDT by blackdog (The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I thought the only qualifications for the cheer-leading squad was two big breasts and blond hair.
103 posted on 07/14/2011 3:14:31 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
She can play be third base. (sarc of course)
104 posted on 07/14/2011 3:14:54 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Don’t they have Booster Squads or the equivalent?


105 posted on 07/14/2011 3:15:01 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (I didn't know she was a liberal when I married her.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

>>I’m not handsome enough to date hot women. Who do I sue for that one?<<

Neither is Janet Napolitano. You might want to go down a different road.


106 posted on 07/14/2011 3:15:22 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

I’m pretty smart, but I probably wouldn’t get into Mensa. Can I sue Marylin Vos Savant over that one?


107 posted on 07/14/2011 3:16:06 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (July 23, 2017 - This is Ellis Wyatt. I am on strike.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Photobucket Gezz! What the hell is wrong with people? She has no arms and legs and yet is mad because she can't compete as a cheer leader...I guess reality does not exist in this freakin' Obama/democrat world anymore.
108 posted on 07/14/2011 3:16:33 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

IMHO, this is a continuation of the idea, prevalent in today’s society, that any activity is for the edification of the person doing it rather than for the onlooker.

I see it in art, in music, and in this kind of story.

It’s not how good the art is, the music, etc. It’s how the person that’s doing it FEELS.

I saw an art show on the tube a few months ago - it was all about how happy each piece made the artist, not if people liked the work or not.


109 posted on 07/14/2011 3:17:17 PM PDT by I still care (I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
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To: antiRepublicrat

Sorry, but IFR means you can’t see outside, not that the cockpit is a black quagmire of darkness and instruments are not illuminated etc. You need to see the instruments, right?

Gosh, almost had me there for a second, I mean millisecond.


110 posted on 07/14/2011 3:17:30 PM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" (my spelling is generally korrect!))
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To: baddog 219

Entitled.

We have created a world of words that have no limits.

So everyone is entitled.


111 posted on 07/14/2011 3:17:34 PM PDT by Chickensoup (The right to bear arms is proved to prevent totalitarian genocide.)
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To: blackdog

The headline is quite misleading, as she does have arms; they are simply not formed properly. She is able to hold her instrument for her marching band; she would presumably be quite capable of using a contraption to hold a sign or a megaphone. In fact, the article implies that she scored highly in all categories except jumps and kicks.


112 posted on 07/14/2011 3:18:03 PM PDT by Publius Valerius
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To: baddog 219

The good thing is, she is young and has time to learn that, intellectually, she is NOT limited very much.

She can use her strengths in other areas to great advantage, and no doubt will.

It’s her parents I have questions about.


113 posted on 07/14/2011 3:18:11 PM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
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To: gov_bean_ counter

“If I had legs you’d see that I’m kicking”!

(couldn’t resist)


114 posted on 07/14/2011 3:18:42 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Zeppelin

Brutal! LOL!


115 posted on 07/14/2011 3:18:54 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The good news is ugly men can do quite well.

Just get rich.

heh


116 posted on 07/14/2011 3:19:34 PM PDT by NYCslicker
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

This has to be a joke.

I’ll bet she didn’t make the football or soccer teams either.

I have news for her, she is never going to become a Rockett either.


117 posted on 07/14/2011 3:21:30 PM PDT by SUSSA
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To: Zeppelin
I can only shake my head.

So can she...

That is so wrong is so many ways ... What a lame thing to say ...

118 posted on 07/14/2011 3:22:04 PM PDT by clamper1797 (Hoping to have some change left)
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To: x

>>Must be a “Glee” viewer.<<

You beat me to it.

I have not had tv since 1997, but I get exposed to stuff from time to time. To someone who does not have tv shaping his “social compass”, the wheelchair kid looked like the classic “token gimp”. And I honestly believe that this absurd fictional situation affected this girls (and her parents) world view to the point that they honestly believe that sort of thing happens outside of fiction.

That’s not how it works. Ever. It sometimes appears that way, but the “social nuances” are much different than how it is depicted on that show.


119 posted on 07/14/2011 3:22:06 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Zeppelin

“So can she...”

ROTFLMBO!!!

This is insanity. Next, she wants to be a pilot, an Olympic swimmer, and a surgeon.


120 posted on 07/14/2011 3:22:24 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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