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AR mother sues constitutional violation after son cut from varsity team

More entitlement-happy nonsense. Anyone surprised?
 
Yeah, poor kid!
 
Deuce said:
No, more like lawsuit-happy nonsense.
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Sometimes the two seem to go hand and hand. What exactly can she claim as merit? That her son won't have enough extra curriculars to get into a highly accredited university, or that her son won't get scouted for a collegiate athletic scholarship because he was cut? Frankly, there's only a handful of reasons a kid gets cut 1) The field was better 2) Disciplinary problems or 3) Chemistry killer(least likely in HS).
 
LaMidRighter said:
Sometimes the two seem to go hand and hand. What exactly can she claim as merit? That her son won't have enough extra curriculars to get into a highly accredited university, or that her son won't get scouted for a collegiate athletic scholarship because he was cut? Frankly, there's only a handful of reasons a kid gets cut 1) The field was better 2) Disciplinary problems or 3) Chemistry killer(least likely in HS).
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4) the school is small, doesn't have a Junior Varsity program and the existing program gives preference to Juniors and Seniors.

Is anyone here the current the owner of the worlds smallest violin playing "My Heart Bleeds for You", if so, time to mail it off and give it to a new owner.
 
Even if he was the #3 best player on his HS team, where #3 thru #11 got cut, he probably wasn't good enough for a basketball scholarship anyway. Only the best of the best get those.
 
This is the natural progression of what we've been teaching our kids in youth sports throughout this country... Everyone gets to play. Everyone gets a trophy. You bat until you hit the ball. Nobody gets told they're not good enough. What else did people think that was going to lead to?
 
Tigger said:
This is the natural progression of what we've been teaching our kids in youth sports throughout this country... Everyone gets to play. Everyone gets a trophy. You bat until you hit the ball. Nobody gets told they're not good enough. What else did people think that was going to lead to?
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To everyone sitting around a campfire in a socialist paradise, holding hands, showing love for each other while they eat tofu bars and sing Kumbaya of course. Didn't you read your invitation?
 
Ridiculous waste of school funds. This woman is infringing upon the rights of other students by wasting district resources on a nonsense lawsuit spurred by her own butthurt over her son's failure to maintain a position on an elective sports team. I hope she loses and is forced to pay the district's court costs.
 
tessaesque said:
Ridiculous waste of school funds. This woman is infringing upon the rights of other students by wasting district resources on a nonsense lawsuit spurred by her own butthurt over her son's failure to maintain a position on an elective sports team. I hope she loses and is forced to pay the district's court costs.
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It reminds me of the baseball dad stereotype, a bunch of failed athletes trying to live through their kids getting PO'd because their kids stink and don't get play time.
 
From the article:
An Arkansas mother has sued her son's high school for cutting her son from the school's varsity basketball team, claiming that he was deprived the right of a full education because he was not allowed to take part in school athletics.
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Really? How does not playing sports rob him from a "full education?"

While those replacements might stoke claims of favoritism, the lawsuit filed by Bloodman goes much further, claiming that her son has a constitutional right to participate in school sports, as you can read in the excerpt from the suit directly below.
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Where exactly is it in the Constitution that one has a right to participate in school sports? One would think that if there are 20 spots open and more than 20 applying, that some aren't going to be able to enter the team..
 
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Is this his future: his mommy picking his battles?
 
radcen said:
Even if he was the #3 best player on his HS team, where #3 thru #11 got cut, he probably wasn't good enough for a basketball scholarship anyway. Only the best of the best get those.
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Giving jocks a place in the college classroom is as absurd as guaranteeing a recruited A student a place on the football team. 18-year-old athletes belong in the minor leagues, not in the universities. This is one of those dysfunctional traditions that are destoying education. It's no different from recruiting bimboes to dance at a college-owned topless bar, just to earn the college some profits. If they treated academically talented students better, they'd get far more in endowments than they get from athletics, just like Harvard does.
 
The problem should be simplified.

Keep sports and academics seperate.
 
DVSentinel said:
To everyone sitting around a campfire in a socialist paradise, holding hands, showing love for each other while they eat tofu bars and sing Kumbaya of course. Didn't you read your invitation?
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Sounds touchy-feely until you realize you're going to be used as one of the marshmallows. Stick it to them instead.
 
Maybe I should sue her for violating my right not to hear stupidity. :)

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If he wants to play sports, he should practice more. Being "deprived the right to a full education"? Gimmie a ****ing break.
 
PrometheusBound said:
Sounds touchy-feely until you realize you're going to be used as one of the marshmallows. Stick it to them instead.
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True, but I didn't receive an invitation. I have already been diagnosed as a denyer of reality and mentally unstable because I believe in self-reliance, self-determination, personal responsibilty, eating meat and people having the right to keep what they earn instead of giving it to the communal pool.
 
And next comes the lawsuit about how its unfair that her kid has to play against kids that can dunk. Height and weight are physical characteristics and for them to be used against others is discrimination. No dunking... the faster boys should have to wear weights. maybe a patch over one eye. Or wait...just make them all play in wheel chairs. Or...we could make the high schools field teams for every group according to their ability. And they should force colleges to give scholarships and teams even if no one wants to go see them and the teams cant support themselves.
 
VanceMack said:
And next comes the lawsuit about how its unfair that her kid has to play against kids that can dunk. Height and weight are physical characteristics and for them to be used against others is discrimination. No dunking... the faster boys should have to wear weights. maybe a patch over one eye. Or wait...just make them all play in wheel chairs. Or...we could make the high schools field teams for every group according to their ability. And they should force colleges to give scholarships and teams even if no one wants to go see them and the teams cant support themselves.
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Careful man. No need to give those types any further ideas.
 
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