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    -Barry Goldwater Jr.
    Former Member of Congress

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Sports Are a Right for Disabled, Says Dept of Education

The Department of Education is telling schools that sports are a “right” for the disabled, and that schools will be guilty of discrimination if they do not include disabled students on sports teams or establish comparable alternatives.

The Associated Press could find no one willing to go on the record against the change, or with a word of caution.

“This is historic,” said Bev Vaughn, the executive director of the American Association of Adapted Sports Programs, a nonprofit group that works with schools to set up sports programs for students with disabilities. “It’s going to open up a whole new door of opportunity to our nation’s schoolchildren with disabilities.”

…”We need to determine how many children would qualify and then look to where kids can be integrated onto traditional teams appropriately. Where we can’t, then we need to add an adaptive program,” said Vaughn, who has advised states and districts how to be more inclusive.

“Typically, the larger school districts realistically could field a varsity and junior varsity team in each sport. In more rural areas, we would do a regional team. It’s not going to overwhelm our schools or districts. It’s just going to take some solid planning and commitment.”

Unlearn the Propaganda!

  • http://twitter.com/royals4lyfe Eddie Royal

    This was a great week for champions of equality. Women in combat, the disabled on sports teams, equal pricing on men’s and women’s haircuts in Denamark, oh my

  • Bryan

    I would hate to have to pay for my haircut what my girlfriend pays for hers.

  • Anonymous

    The solution to this issue is the same for the prayer in school, evolution/creation in school, school shooting issues: abolish the government schools.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jester2069 Jesse Jewell

    Today I listened to a caller on a local sports station talk about how his blind daughter could now be on her school soccer team. I couldn’t bring myself to laugh about the subject, but neither could I take it seriously.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jester2069 Jesse Jewell

    ….which is probably what’s going to happen in Denmark. Yay equality!

  • kirk

    in America, rights come from God, privileges from man.

    in amerika, rights are treated as ‘privileges’ and privileges are treated as ‘rights’.

    the upside down world we live in continues…unabated…with the bottom getting closer and closer.

  • Anonymous

    This nonsense is sounding more and more like Ayn Rand’s dystopian world in “Atlas Shrugged.”

    Mark_Carroll: simple and logical solution….

  • Anonymous

    Coming soon: The Harrison Bergeron League. Sign up early for the best selection of weights.
    Time was, only the refs were blind.

  • http://www.facebook.com/eksepulveda Efrem K. Sepulveda

    It is regrettable that people like Tatiania McFadden, who I followed during the Paraplympics, used government force to make access for disabled available. It will cause resentment and will drive up the cost of college even higher. A message of liberty must be taken up by the disabled.

  • Anonymous

    Every forceful act by the government has been sold to us by false advertising of the silver lining. Deception is rampant in the halls of our so-called “leaders”. We should abort them and lead ourselves.

  • Art

    “College football would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.”

    H L Mencken
    Minority Report

  • Sabrina Liukin

    Watch out for the slide tackle.

  • Sabrina Liukin

    Just wait for the lawsuits to start pouring in from disabled kids getting seriously injured or killed.

    What’s next, forcing businesses to hire idiots or someone with a legit learning disability over someone with a degree in that field? Can’t discriminate based on intelligence either!

  • Sabrina Liukin

    Yeah, they’re not going to reduce the price of a woman’s haircut and take a huge loss. They’ll just raise the price for the men. I can’t wait to start hearing reports from Denmark about the men’s haircut black market.

  • http://twitter.com/theverylastuser TheVeryLastUser

    It’s a great subsidy for shaver manufacturers/importers, I think.

  • http://twitter.com/chrifive916 chrifive916

    I never understood ideas like this or the way title IX was implemented.

    Shouldn’t equality mean that there is one team in a given sport, and the best players make the team regardless of gender or handicap?

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