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re: Special Needs Student Told To Remove His Varsity Letter
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:41 am to Dick Leverage
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:41 am to Dick Leverage
quote:
the people in this thread who never earned one and are regretful that they were born without any athletic ability?
We already went over the point that they give them out for more than just athletics...
I would say keep up, but I'm guessing you lettered in football and not academics
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:41 am to lsupride87
quote:
Yeh both sides fricked up. But the people in here that simply want to throw the cookie to the "retarded" kid piss me off more. That is more degrading to me than anything
I understand you find it degrading in the sense that he has a better ability to understand the context of his situation than many give him credit for, and we shouldn't just hand things out to all special needs kids because they are special needs.
I agree with that, it makes sense.
But his own mother was the one who gave him the letter, and I'd imagine she knows what is actually best for her own son.
Don't put all special needs kids into the same box. Unless you think his own mother is degrading him and you know better than she?
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:41 am to southernelite
quote:
I thought the come at me bro part properly conveyed my sarcasm
meter = broken
my bad
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:41 am to Green Chili Tiger
good grief, just when I thought I had finally seen the bottom of this place, someone has to take us lower.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:42 am to southernelite
quote:Jesuit kids put it before their College
People with college degrees put their HS education on their resume?
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:42 am to genro
The retards in this story isnt the kid with special needs. Its the adminstration that are the retards and the dumbasses in this thread agreeing with them.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:42 am to southernelite
quote:
People with college degrees put their HS education on their resume?
Its one line..
High School 1995-1999 Graduate
Lets people know you didn't GED your way out..
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:42 am to southernelite
quote:I thought you were elite?
People with college degrees put their HS education on their resume?
shite, my HS education blows LSU out of the water.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:43 am to GrammarKnotsi
I literally became eligible for a letterman jacket for playing clarinet in band.
I didn't get it for achieving anything in band. I got it because I...... Wait for it.... Participated.
Letters are participation awards that only shitty athletes care about. The athletes who go on to play college ball certainly don't give a shite. It's just those guys who barely made the cut line, and consider it an accomplishment in life.
I didn't get it for achieving anything in band. I got it because I...... Wait for it.... Participated.
Letters are participation awards that only shitty athletes care about. The athletes who go on to play college ball certainly don't give a shite. It's just those guys who barely made the cut line, and consider it an accomplishment in life.
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:43 am to Green Chili Tiger
quote:
Only if the one stealing the valor has special needs.
He is entering a world of pain. My buddies didn't die face-down in the mud at two-a-days, just so some 'tard can steal our varsity status! Doesn't anyone but me care about the fricking rules?!?!?!
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:44 am to Tigerfan56
quote:
I understand you find it degrading in the sense that he has a better ability to understand the context of his situation than many give him credit for, and we shouldn't just hand things out to all special needs kids because they are special needs.
I agree with that, it makes sense.
quote:I maybe wrong about the mother. But the way she handled it and went to the media, it makes me fear she is the type of parents that will never allow their downs kid to fully develop. It is hard, but the parents have to allow them to feel sadness and loss and failure, in order for them to grow. I maybe completely wrong about this mother and I hope I am
But his own mother was the one who gave him the letter, and I'd imagine she knows what is actually best for her own son.
Don't put all special needs kids into the same box. Unless you think his own mother is degrading him and you know better than she?
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:45 am to lsupride87
quote:she sounds awesome. If anyone were a fricking dick to my kid I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to embarrass them
But the way she handled it and went to the media
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:45 am to Green Chili Tiger
quote:
but you shouldn't be able to just buy a varsity letter, even if your kid is "one of a kind and loves to play basketball".
Oh give me a break
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:46 am to DelU249
quote:Yeh that is really bad parenting
she sounds awesome. If anyone were a fricking dick to my kid I wouldn't pass up the opportunity to embarrass them
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:46 am to lsupride87
quote:
Yeh that is really bad parenting
You must not have kids
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:47 am to lsupride87
I'm spiteful as shite. If I had a kid and an adult authority figure who is supposed to be a positive influence on him was a prick to that child...I'd ruin them
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:47 am to GrammarKnotsi
quote:Going to the media anytime you feel your kid is slighted is good parenting? Holy shite the OT has jumped the shark
You must not have kids
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:48 am to lsupride87
quote:
Going to the media anytime you feel your kid is slighted is good parenting?
Maybe not good, but it is parenting...
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:49 am to DelU249
quote:I can respect that Your kid may however may not grow up to be the toughest or most self-dependent kid in the world
I'm spiteful as shite. If I had a kid and an adult authority figure who is supposed to be a positive influence on him was a prick to that child...I'd ruin them
This post was edited on 3/27/15 at 10:49 am
Posted on 3/27/15 at 10:49 am to lsufan251875
I'm wondering if there is more to the story than this...
..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.
..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.
This post was edited on 3/27/15 at 10:50 am
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