http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/27/1373746/-Special-needs-student-forced-to-remove-letter-jacket-after-parent-complained-he-didn-t-earn-it?detail=email
Michael Kelley is a special needs student at Wichita East High School in Kansas. Like most Kansans, he loves basketball and plays in a recreational league. His parents are proud of his dedication to the game and bought him a letter jacket that he wore with pride. That is, until this week:
“Another parent, from what I am told, was upset that my son was wearing his letter jacket.”
The mother claims her son was asked to take that jacket off and was given a sweat shirt to wear instead.
The school claimed it was school policy, but the Athletic Director for the entire school district says it is NOT district policy:
The family turned to J. Means, USD 259’s Athletic Director. He told the family that when he was the athletic director at Northwest High their policy was to allow special needs students to earn letters, just like other athletes.
Jolinda Kelley wants the school to change the policy so that athletes of all abilities can show their school pride:
“It’s not just my son. It’s every student that was out there last night. It’s every student that’s there on Fridays that plays their hardest and to the best of their capability regardless what that is.”
there is so much discrimination in this country it's a miracle we are still here and have gotten past a lot but nowhere near enough attitudinal changes. like the racist SAE frat in OK they IMO rightly said they were taught it, well it's true if i can borrow lyrics from a rap song "the message", "a child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind", we all are taught it's called passing down from generation to generation what is passed is what creates the machinations of collective and individual racial identity.
why, are those who oppose so insecure and paranoid they think that it lessens their kid who earned it's credibility or that it could be seen as they are equal to and not better than a special needs kid, i think that would be more in God's realm to qualify. embracing a special needs kid by top jocks goes further to advance that person who does than the one who throws his dog a bone but won't let another kid have a moment.
