{"id":25922,"date":"2011-07-20T14:07:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25922"},"modified":"2011-07-20T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T18:07:03","slug":"picking-your-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25922","title":{"rendered":"Picking your fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adirondack Patriot sent a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/should-a-girl-with-no-arms-and-no-legs-get-special-treatment-to-become-a-cheerleader\/\">The Blaze<\/a> about armless and legless 16-year-old Julia Sullivan who wants to join her school&#8217;s cheerleading squad and she&#8217;s been rejected three years running. I certainly sympathize with her plight and her desire to be a normal teenage high school student, but she and her parents have sent the ACLU after the school.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe would agree that there are some activities such as football where the ability to run and tackle are fundamental to the sport,\u201d Kevin Schneider, the family\u2019s attorney, told the World-Herald. \u201cMaking reasonable accommodations and modifications for cheerleading are not fundamental in that same way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What? And jumping around, dancing, twirling and catching your team mates aren&#8217;t fundamental to cheer leading? What &#8220;reasonable accommodations&#8221; should be made? Cyborg arms and legs? I&#8217;m sure other girls have been rejected by the team because they couldn&#8217;t dance or perform acrobatics well enough to be on the squad, right? That&#8217;s pretty standard. The &#8220;reasonable accommodations&#8221; they want is complete ignorance of the fact that Julia&#8217;s not even remotely qualified to be on the squad &#8211; anymore than I would be even in my prime.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything is worth litigation, and the ACLU is doing this just to attract the money that sticking up for the handicapped would garner. <\/p>\n<p>I know there&#8217;s at least ONE cheerleader out there who has a comment. You know who you are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adirondack Patriot sent a link to The Blaze about armless and legless 16-year-old Julia Sullivan who &hellip; <a title=\"Picking your fights\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25922\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Picking your fights<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}