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re: Special Needs Student Told To Remove His Varsity Letter
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:49 am to GrammarKnotsi
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:49 am to GrammarKnotsi
I wonder what corkys parents would do
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Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:49 am to GrammarKnotsi
If wearing a letter jacket makes this DS kid feel special and happy then let him wear it. He won't have the opportunities in life that normal people would have. People who care about this need to get a life.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:51 am to Green Chili Tiger
WTF is wrong with this world. Since when do people police varsity letters?! Let the kid keep his shite. There is a special place in hell for these type of people.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:51 am to GrammarKnotsi
I believe in everyone having the right to have their own opinions. I also believe that the school is being a big ole bag of dicks. It's a damn high school varsity letter. Who gives a shite about the "sanctity" of it. My school gave them to the speech/drama kids and I didn't really care. If it was at extra cost to the school, like traveling expenses or something along those lines, I could understand, but this is a damn accessory to an ugly jacket that no one should wear past their senior year.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:53 am to Tigerfan56
Man, you have gone over the edge with your letter envy/hate. Nobody in this thread is boasting about earning a HS letter. What is in this thread is you angrily posting on every page about some fictional pride that you assert posters have about a freaking letter. Your tone and rhetoric demonstrates that you were a jealous nerd in HS who envied people who might have accomplished something athletically that you were unable to accomplish. Yes....that is demonstrated much by you in this thread while the thing you assert is found nowhere. As for the DS kid....I think he should have been allowed to keep his letter. But you....damn you are jealous.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:53 am to LSUAlum2001
quote:again, the argument of fairness doesn't work here
like the mom asking the coaches/school about giving him a letter and the being told no because it'll open up pandoras box with other kids expecting letters without earning them.
...and then she went out and bought him one, anyway. And now she's screaming to the hills about it, which was probably her plan all along.
1. kids need to learn that life isn't fair
2. try telling a child with DS that you need to make it fair for everyone. Whilst not even allowing him the opportunity to earn one.
to whatever dickhead took this kid's jacket, I cannot wait for him to scream how "unfair" it is that his life is ruined or come under strain because he enforced the rules.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:54 am to Tigerfan56
[quote]lol at people in here acting like "the letter must be earned". It's a fricking HS varsity letter, not some prestigious rhodes-scholarship type honor.
If it makes the kid happy to wear it, then so be it, let him have his moment.
The people against something like this are probably the peaked in HS guys who still talk about their high school sport playing days.[/quote
Typical mellinial answer. Everybody gets a trophy!
This is on the mother. She should not have just bought it and put it on his jacket. You may say it's no big deal, but it's a big deal to the students who actually earned it. I feel for the kid I really do. However, the mom is a shitty parent for not approaching this in the correct manner, meaning talk to the school. Also, if she did talk to the school and they told her no, she is an even worse parent.
If it makes the kid happy to wear it, then so be it, let him have his moment.
The people against something like this are probably the peaked in HS guys who still talk about their high school sport playing days.[/quote
Typical mellinial answer. Everybody gets a trophy!
This is on the mother. She should not have just bought it and put it on his jacket. You may say it's no big deal, but it's a big deal to the students who actually earned it. I feel for the kid I really do. However, the mom is a shitty parent for not approaching this in the correct manner, meaning talk to the school. Also, if she did talk to the school and they told her no, she is an even worse parent.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:55 am to Dick Leverage
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Man, you have gone over the edge with your letter envy/hate. Nobody in this thread is boasting about earning a HS letter. What is in this thread is you angrily posting on every page about some fictional pride that you assert posters have about a freaking letter. Your tone and rhetoric demonstrates that you were a jealous nerd in HS who envied people who might have accomplished something athletically that you were unable to accomplish. Yes....that is demonstrated much by you in this thread while the thing you assert is found nowhere. As for the DS kid....I think he should have been allowed to keep his letter. But you....damn you are jealous.
I'm picturing you crying and petting your letterman jacket right now whispering affirmations to yourself over and over.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:56 am to GrammarKnotsi
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High School 1995-1999 Graduate Lets people know you didn't GED your way out..
I think this isn't necessary its only going to follow lines of higher education.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:57 am to Projectpat
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Why not? You think it diminishes the reward for the other kids? Because the school's disabled kid enjoys wearing his letter? Get over yourselves.
This. The sad thing is not one person in the fricking school could come to this conclusion and put it out there.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:57 am to DelU249
The article sounds like he played special needs basketball, and he wasn't on the varsity team. If he was on the varsity team (manager, player, whatever) I bet the coach would have given him a jacket.
Do the kids who play flag football in PE, who aren't on the actual varsity team, get letter jackets, too?
Do the kids who play flag football in PE, who aren't on the actual varsity team, get letter jackets, too?
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:59 am to lsupride87
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But the people in here that simply want to throw the cookie to the "retarded" kid piss me off more.
I see it more as "Hey that special kid took a cookie! F--- that, take it back!"
Seriously its a damn jacket, I dont know how this is a serious debate.
I don't see it as handing anything out. The kid actually participates in a sport, something most kids don't do.
It's not like he's getting some ridiculous concessions. If he was out masturbating in public, nobody would let him do it because just because he's special.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:00 am to PTBob
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Your tone and rhetoric demonstrates that you were a jealous nerd in HS who envied people who might have accomplished something athletically that you were unable to accomplish
No, I was a decent-average HS football player. Played at a small HS where no one was cut.
Due to that- I earned the elusive and long sought after letter (as did everyone else), which should not be given out to anyone! (other than 60% of all high school students)
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:02 am to Green Chili Tiger
This is a real, real slippery slope.
On hand, yeah the school looks like a bunch of dickheads. But at the same time, the student in question didn't actually earn a varsity letter. NEvermind the fact he is special needs, that's not really the point. What if they relaxed the rules in this one case, then everyone in the school who plays rec basketball bought a varsity letter too? And the kids who play rec soccer, and kids who golf on the weekends, etc. Damn near the whole school would have a letter.
I guess my point is, in this ONE case...yeah the school sucks. But I can see this opening up the floodgates.
On hand, yeah the school looks like a bunch of dickheads. But at the same time, the student in question didn't actually earn a varsity letter. NEvermind the fact he is special needs, that's not really the point. What if they relaxed the rules in this one case, then everyone in the school who plays rec basketball bought a varsity letter too? And the kids who play rec soccer, and kids who golf on the weekends, etc. Damn near the whole school would have a letter.
I guess my point is, in this ONE case...yeah the school sucks. But I can see this opening up the floodgates.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:04 am to WG_Dawg
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NEvermind the fact he is special needs, that's not really the point. What if they relaxed the rules in this one case, then everyone in the school who plays rec basketball bought a varsity letter too? And the kids who play rec soccer, and kids who golf on the weekends, etc.
To this I also say, who cares? It's a letter earned for participating. All of the above would be participants in activities.
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Damn near the whole school would have a letter
Spoiler alert- this is already the case in high schools
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:05 am to Green Chili Tiger
I feel for the kid but just a tiny bit because of his disability. But I really hate Opera culture. Affirmative action, medals for everyone, everyone is equal, etc.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:06 am to DanW1
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I see it more as "Hey that special kid took a cookie! F--- that, take it back!"
I see it more as, "Hey, that special kid's mom bought him the same brand of cookie we get?. . ."
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:06 am to XxxSpooky1
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Typical mellinial answer. Everybody gets a trophy!
This isn't like we're awarding a gold star to some normal kid for participating in a spelling bee despite missing the first word.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:07 am to Tigerfan56
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Spoiler alert- this is already the case in high schools
A carryover from everyone getting a participation trophy in elementary school.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 11:07 am to Green Chili Tiger
I'd pull the move in Rudy and bring my Letter Jacket to the office and say, He can have my spot.
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