HS makes student with Down syndrome and autism remove varsity letter

Exactly. It's not like this kid all of a sudden won't have Down Syndrome when he becomes 18.

"You're an adult, son, act like it!"

 

The ceiling for individuals with this affliction may not be as low as you and expendable make it seem.

Student with Down syndrome will fulfill her dream of going to college this fall at Millersville University - LancasterOnline: Local News

 

He's also autistic.

 

Jesus Christ. Tough love for Down Syndrome kids?

This one is also autistic BTW.

 

No one has suggested to give them all the letter R?

 

That one make you feel good Vombatus?

 

No, I am going to hell.

 

This. +1

 

To slightly rearrange a tired cliche ("Be the change you want to see"), why should we choose to exclude or treat those with disabilities in a shitty way just because society tends to do the same? The suggestion that I shouldn't do something to make this kid feel more included, or a part of something, because other jerks will treat him that way, is backwards.

This isn't a case of coddling a spoiled child. This is a boy that can't process the politics of social/athletic hierarchies the way that we can. We do him no favors by making him succumb to it, anyway. We only provide fodder for those who fear people take sports and arbitrary distinctions too seriously at the expense of, you know, empathy or reasonable sympathy.

 

No forum fights over its past as much as this one does.