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

[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.'

[blackdog]

I suspect parents using her like trolling bait for a lawsuit. Not fair of me, but it’s my call.

[patriot08]

LOL Post of the day.

[DC Ripper]

>>If she were a Muslim, she would automatically make it AND the entire cheerleading squad would be forced to wear head scarfs!<<

Ain’t it the truth!!! lol

[x]

Must be a "Glee" viewer.

Ironically, "the kid in the wheelchair" on that show isn't actually disabled.

Activists protested.

[rockinqsranch]

God bless you young Ms. Sullivan for trying. You aren’t meant to be that type of cheerleader. There are many other opportunities, and possibilities for cheerleading that don’t require such physical means as you are without.

Facts are to be faced, and dealt with wisely.

[Above My Pay Grade]

While I admire her for trying, if she can’t do the moves, she shouldn’t make the team. What next, try out for the basketball, soccer or swim team? Don’t those activities “discriminate” against the disabled as well?

[Blood of Tyrants]

She can’t jump. She can’t tumble (except out of her chair), she can run or dance or shake a pompom. And face it, she isn’t that pretty. Why would she think she has what it takes to be a cheerleader? This is akin to a mentally handicapped person suing to be on the Mathletics team yet they can barely add 2 and 2.

[Outlaw Woman]

I'm really trying my level best to not flame out and bust out into laughter but your comment has made that almost impossible!

[Charles Martel]

We used to have common sense in this country.

Yep - and to those of us who can perceive the change since then, it's now like having a front row seat at the freak show.

[real saxophonist]

Next, she’s going to audition for the marching band. On flute.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

>>I’d like to be in the NBA and make millions per year. I’m only 4’ 3”, can’t jump, hate basketball and generally am uncoordinated. Should I sue? By the way I am an ancephalic quadrapelegic.<<

I was afraid I would be perceived as “mean,” and the girl would get a lot more sympathy.

Thankfully, this is Free Republic, where sanity reigns. ;-)

[skr]

And Amen

[ET(end tyranny)]

Hey, reasonable accommodation.
Build a ramp to get her to the top of the pyramid.

Then she could do a back flip off the pyramid and land in her wheelchair. Think of the cheers!! ;)

[skr]

And Amen

[antiRepublicrat]

I’ve heard a blind man say that he could even pilot an airplane if he wanted to. Please!

Technically, a blind pilot should be able to do as well as any other pilot under IFR if his instruments are set up for him. All pilots are equally blind under IFR regardless of their physical limitations or lack thereof.

But there does have to some realism here. You aren't going to be a photographer if you're blind. You aren't going to be a computer science professor if you have an IQ of 40 (try women's or GLBT studies instead).

[GeronL]

Who taught her to be so pathetic?

She probably has stregnths that she could focus on instead of spending her time doing things that are impossible for her.

[Zeppelin]

I can only shake my head.

So can she...

[blackdog]

Bulemic nutritional counselors. Anorexic food columnists. Blind movie critics. And don’t laugh at this one because I experienced it............A deaf and mute receptionist at a city hall in Rock Hill, SC. She just would point at a sign directing anyone with questions to go to an office down the hall, outside the lobby area. I kid you not!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Yeah, probably tasteless, but deep down it really does sadden me.

We have a disabled son and would NEVER have allowed him nor encouraged him to be put on display like this.

[longtermmemmory]

sometimes life is not an after school special.

this is going to be a perky lifetime movie special with the usual blah blah blah because nobody wants to violate the pc rule and clear state the emperor has no clothes.