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Well state championship title is pretty important to lots of HS sports teams.
What "reasonable modifications" do you do to the rules ? Is out of bounds acceptable IF the student doing it is disabled ?
Does one NOT tackle the kid with the ball because he's in a wheelchair ?
No, I see two separate teams being formed within schools. Means hire lots more coaches.
Heck, who needs Math/Science teachers anyway ?
Ya know we've had Title IX for more than 40 years and the "reasonable": accommodation statutes that it requires hasn't stop Alabama from winning the BCS title, nor Kentucky from winning a national title.
Ya know we've had Title IX for more than 40 years and the "reasonable": accommodation statutes that it requires hasn't stop Alabama from winning the BCS title, nor Kentucky from winning a national title.
"Schools can't deny a disabled student a slot on a sports team because a coach believes he can't compete."
So the disable kid can't be cut now. Next the coach will have to listen to the parents whine and cry about why their kid isn't playing. Then the coach will bend and put em in there and they get plastered all over the field and the parents will sue for putting littly Johnny in a dangerous situation.
All kids should play when they are younger. High school sports are much more serious. The entire premise is competing. You compete with the guys on your team to start, you compete with the opponent to win. I guess that's not fair but neither is life. Not everybody was cut out for sports. Not everybody was cut out to be in the choir either.
It will play out like it always does. Lawyers splitting a pile of cash...........all for the children of course.
Heck our local junior high cut out the entire sports for 7th graders last year to save money. Kids have to go play AAU or USSSA or what have you or city league stuff until they get into eight grade now. Now when folks will demand that disable kids have their own teams to compete against each other, that means more coaches, bus trips, equipment etc. etc. etc. What about all the trophies after every game. I mean they're gonna have to all get a trophy for showing up. What if no other schools have enough kids to field a disabled team? I guess they take somebody's spot. Oh sorry Bob I know you've been working out your entire life and this was the year you were going to compete for the starting spot on the high school football team but we have a disable boy who is taking your spot.
More nonsense due to Obama's reelection I fear more to come. A directive forbidding folks to deny felons a job will be forthcoming soon. Tests will be eliminated since certain groups don't do well taking tests.
“We already have gone to great lengths to include students with disabilities in a way that it is not detrimental to the fundamental concept of the contest,” he said, pointing to a wrestler with no legs who racked up a 36-14 record in his senior year competing on a traditional team. He said a wheelchair division at the state track-and-field championships has been a “disappointment,” with not much interest. “A majority of our special-needs students would prefer to compete in the Special Olympics,” he said.
Well look it here left to their own schools developed special wheel chair divisions and the kids still preferred to compete in the Special Olympics. It's kind of like the women in front lines directive, there isn't much demand or big outcry for a change but golly gee Obamabots see something unequal and it must be remedied.
Well I'm sure the lawyers will figure out to make a killing, they're cleaning up with the American Disability Act in NYC.
More nonsense due to Obama's reelection I fear more to come. A directive forbidding folks to deny felons a job will be forthcoming soon. Tests will be eliminated since certain groups don't do well taking tests.
If they eliminate the standardized testing I will return to teaching. I hate teaching to the test. However, I suspect the more likely scenario is that they will change the tests.
The bigger issue is the federal government in far away DC telling the states and local school districts how to run their programs and saddling them with mandates they cannot afford.
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