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In reply to the discussion: Schools must provide sports for disabled, US says [View all]glowing
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both athletes integrated. All it takes is knocking over a wheel chair or tripping over or falling onto another player. I didn't mean special leagues, and while it may be doable to set up a league in larger cities, it would be nearly impossible in smaller, rural areas.
I think a lot of people don't understand large population density areas and rural small density issues. I have lived both. I also have seen what it means to a small town to have to soak up the costs of extreme special needs. A town spending $50,000.00 on one child is a lot to absorb... Whereas in a larger population density, it would be easier to spread out the costs.
Like I said in a post previously, our education should be federally funded completely. No small towns or recessions or mandates would devastate the school system. I am not saying that special needs children shouldn't participate in athletics. But they still separate the Olympics from the Special Olympics. It's not as feasible as it sounds good.
And Arne comes from Chicago where public schools for learning have stripped of basics like PE out, but he also sees a greater population density where it's feasible to set up teams and have coaches and buses equipped properly for transport. This is not meant to be a dig at special needs. It's should be a call to actually arm our next generation with more advantages than it takes to build a bomb to explode.
There's the real fight! That's where we should focus.