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1 posted on 05/08/2018 7:59:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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Ain’t Socialism great!!!


2 posted on 05/08/2018 8:02:11 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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Now wait. I once saw a news story that let every girl on the cheerleading squad but here was the catch. She must have a C average and show up for every practice unless she has a doc’s note. It worked out well. Was about 100 girl on the squad and they seemed to love it. This story was decades ago. So why not use the same rules?


3 posted on 05/08/2018 8:03:30 AM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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How asinine. With this logic, why not put 25 people on the basketball team, or 200 on the FB team?
This is what we used to call a pep club, what’s wrong with that? Anybody can be in the pep club.
I wonder if the mother was a protected minority or someone of influence.


4 posted on 05/08/2018 8:06:53 AM PDT by GnuThere
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Everyone should make the football team too———it’s only fair.

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5 posted on 05/08/2018 8:07:01 AM PDT by Mears
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Socialism is the equal distribution of incomepetence and misery.


6 posted on 05/08/2018 8:10:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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This story really gets me. So now we’re saying, the concept of team tryouts is discriminatory. They are trying to say you can’t have tryouts and see who makes a team because some will be left out. The very concept of any competition for anything is now considered wrong.

God knows what life lessons these kids are going to learn from this sort of episode.

So now that we can’t have tryouts for teams, and this concept can undoubtedly be applied to sports teams as well, then what’s next?


7 posted on 05/08/2018 8:12:32 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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They seem to think that everyone gets the same abilities and talents, but that opportunities are unequal.
Exactly the opposite.


9 posted on 05/08/2018 8:16:13 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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I want to play in the NBA. I can’t jump, play defense, or rebound. I can hit 75% from the 15-18 ft range as long as nobody guards me. An old, white bald guy would add to diversity. Sign me to a contract. I’ll play for $3 million a year.


10 posted on 05/08/2018 8:16:24 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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The Incredibles ‘Everyone’s special’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXCCBmTvBI


13 posted on 05/08/2018 8:32:41 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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If there can’t be any losers, there can’t be any winners either.


14 posted on 05/08/2018 8:35:24 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Didn’t read yet, but I want to guess first:

They choose from a lottery each week to see who gets to ‘cheer’?


16 posted on 05/08/2018 8:38:39 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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Ehhh. It is even more mealy-mouthed of a policy than I had imagined.


17 posted on 05/08/2018 8:39:53 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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I hope that someone teaches these kids that when they get into the workforce and apply for a job, not everyone who applied is going to get it.


19 posted on 05/08/2018 8:43:20 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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I understand some of this. I have a special needs daughter who was excluded out of all extra curricular activities during high school because she wasn’t good enough. Her identical twin was the total opposite. Very good at lots of things

It would be nice to have clubs that are open to every one to learn the activity, and then maybe perform at some event.

For cheerleading, maybe the best kids performs at varsity football games, and the others perform at different sporting events (junior varsity football, basketball, the girls soccer team).

There are ways to include all kids who want to participate, and honor those that are the best.

My daughter loved theater and never got to be in a theater show in 4 years of high school. She was totally excluded out of that group. (Since her identical twin was a very good actress, it made it worse.) She was never invited to the parties. She never had after school activities to go to. It was hard to make friends.

She did a summer theater program where everyone us casts too. They cast her as an evil step-sister in Cinderella her last year, and my daughter rocked her part. She just needed to be given an opportunity.

She had speech problems. I think directors thought she couldn’t memorize lines. However, she is actually better than most at memorization. Also, her speech is pretty normal if it is something she memorized and practiced. She shocked people. They underestimated her.


20 posted on 05/08/2018 8:55:56 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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Lake Woebegone, where all the children are above average.
Of course this happens in a country where illegal immigrants go to the head of the line while legal immigrants wait for years and go through mountains of paperwork. A country where academic requirements are lowered for those who can’t eat self-esteem.


22 posted on 05/08/2018 9:06:32 AM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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wait till the get LAUGHED at by the opposing teams, there won't be crying rooms big enough to hold them all...

THEN, the opposing teams will be called haters and fat shame-ers etc and told to shut up, just wait and see

30 posted on 05/08/2018 5:38:07 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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