how included will they feel when nobody but their parents show up to watch these exhibitions???If it was up to me, I’d just say “screw it” and tell the feds to keep their money.
I heard one of the parents of these special children say it will make the kids feel included.
Well, there are millions of kids who don't make the team....millions....so should we have another team for them??
Paging “ Harrison Bergeron” its your turn to play
What men’s sports will get cut now?
Just wait until they are deemed ready for combat - you know “fairness”.
Wheelchair tennis???
Do you make the ball bounce slower or something?
This is stupid.
What a great way to get the feds out of your schools, tho!
I believe this just the beginning.
The next four years are gonna be a Progressive cluster to get as much wackiness as possible carved in stone.
Like monkeys f-ing a football.
Here’s the tune I keep hearing in my head every time something asinine like this comes up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B0CyOAO8y0
What else? Wheelchair Tennis? Wheelchair Cheerleaders? Deaf Cheerleaders? Wheelchair Baseball?
I can hardly wait for the results of the first all-blind archery tournament.
For that ‘touch of masochism’ in all of us, it is worth staying alive to see what this bunch of ‘feel good idiots’ can come up with next.
There were only 8 million stories in the ‘Naked City’, but when he gets around to doing something for ‘me and thee’ it will be up to 300 million stories in the naked country.
I would say that this is absolutely the dumbest single idea they have come up with BUT would just have to repeat myself in the next day or so.
Back in the 70’s some hippies/yuppies proposed diapers on ALL animals - domestic, wild etc etc. Look for that to come back’
There was a deaf competitor on my daughter’s swim team years ago, and what the school did was have a hearing teammate stand behind him and when the start buzzer went off, she tapped his ankle. It worked very well, brought a tear to my eye (as I’m all-but-deaf too), and didn’t cost the school a penny to implement.
how included will they feel when nobody but their parents show up to watch these exhibitions???What do you call a kid with no arms and legs who plays baseball?.......Third base...
It’s a joke people! Like our fearless leader!
Maybe he can set it up so that I can play in the NBA. I’m 55 years old and 5’10”. Is that a problem?
Our oldest son is high functioning autistic, he turns 16 tomorrow (where does the time go?) We have been blessed that we are in a area that has a very well coordinated Special Olympics program. He has competed in the local, regional and state level in basketball, swimming, bowling, soccer, and track & field. If the weather holds up next month, he will be able to ski in the Winter Games (last year he learned how to ski but competition was cancelled because of not enough snow)
He’s never really expressed interest in the school programs because of the opportunities he’s received in Special Olympics.
I am thinking a running back with a properly designed wheelchair on a regular team could be quite effective. (^;
Good thing the hard stuff, like the debt and budget, has been taken care of so fedzilla can concentrate on shit like this.
Can you be against it, you heartless Republicans? Could you be against Bush pere’s ADA, which ended up driving many small businesses out of... business (but you’ll never hear about it, so it didn’t happen)? It works every time, fake compassion does, government compassion, and it works on Conservatives as well.
I think this will come to a halt when Harvard, Yale and Princeton can no longer give kids of alumni or wealthy influential families an edge in admissions.
Make them take all the qualified applicants into a pool - by only objective measures SAT and GPA - have them draw the ones that are admitted lottery style.
This everyone wins/get to participate nonsense will end within 10 seconds.