No, you're being a rude, inconsiderate cold-hearted son of a bitch ASSHAT. STFU and go away.
I thought the sarcasm warning was prominent enough
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When they bend rules, how far will they bend them next time? and the time after that? THAT is what I making light of.
THis is a discussion board. We discuss things. We aren’t liberals, shutting down talk by trying to shame people into not discussing the issues.
The boy was not denied a chance to play football. He was on the team, just like every other kid could be on the team.
Now, because of his DS, he is behind a year in school. Guess what — there are a LOT of people who are behind a year in school, for all sorts of reasons. Some kids get in trouble for a while. Some don’t apply themselves. Some are not very bright. Some have disabilities.
The rules are easy enough. In order to keep adults from playing sports with kids (remember, 9th grade is high school in some places, 10th grade everywhere, and that can be 15 and 16-year-olds), they cut off eligibiity at 19 years old.
Of course, they also HAVE to do that, because if you didn’t you can guarantee that some coach, in order to get advantage, would find a way to get his kids to stay back a year, so he’d have a team full of adults playing kids.
In this case, parents of a kid who played football, but had been held back a year, argued that their particular circumstances should get special treatment.
And because we love the disabled, (look at ADA and the disibility insurance program), they were able to get the system to approve their special treatment.
This isn’t about some nice story of a disabled child getting a chance to be one of the regulars. This is about a boy, with some unspecified level of disability, getting to compete a year older than the other kids.
And he’s all-state. That means he is VERY GOOD. Which suggest that, at least in sports, he isn’t disabled, he is fully functional. And also older than all the other kids, probably larger, better-formed, more muscular.
So no, I don’t think it is rude or inconsiderate to consider whether we should allow adults to play with kids simply because the adult had a disability which resulted in them being held back a year.