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400-pound, 44-year-old student who wants to be gym teacher sues Michigan college for weight discrimination after it rejected his application
Not the Bee ^ | 12/28/23 | Miser Retrops

Posted on 01/03/2024 1:00:37 PM PST by DallasBiff

David Lopez, 44, weighs over 400 pounds, has diabetes, hypertension, asthma, and has trouble walking or standing for prolonged periods of time, but Lopez started attending Wayne State University with the hefty goal of being a high school gym teacher.

When Lopez got his doctor to sign a medical waiver for him during the student-teaching requirement of the program, he demanded that the university let him conduct his student teaching virtually. Wayne State University refused

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Well if my gym teacher weighed 400 pounds, we would throw kickballs at him.
1 posted on 01/03/2024 1:00:37 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

I had a co-worker working towards being a gym teacher of junior high students. His interest was more into the junior high students than teaching course.


2 posted on 01/03/2024 1:04:34 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: DallasBiff

Clown Planet


3 posted on 01/03/2024 1:04:54 PM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: DallasBiff

I see large student loan debt with a useless degree in this guys future...


4 posted on 01/03/2024 1:05:43 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: DallasBiff

He’s looking for a big PAYDAY!!


5 posted on 01/03/2024 1:06:00 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DallasBiff

Maybe he’s 9 feet tall.


6 posted on 01/03/2024 1:07:06 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

If he lies down, sure.


7 posted on 01/03/2024 1:08:23 PM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: DallasBiff

for some strange reason, no news outlet has a picture of the dude.


8 posted on 01/03/2024 1:09:32 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Magnum44

He’ll be one of those guys calling Dave Ramsey in five years about having $300,000 in student loans, a $50,000 car, $85,000 in credit card debt and a $35,000 a year job.


9 posted on 01/03/2024 1:10:09 PM PST by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: NorthMountain

Still looking for a sufficiently wide lens.


10 posted on 01/03/2024 1:11:39 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Magnum44

> I see large student loan debt with a useless degree in this guys future... <

Yes, indeed. Colleges are churning out way more Phys. Ed. teachers than are needed. If you don’t want to work in a complete hell hole, you’ve got to either be very lucky or know someone in the school board (or both).


11 posted on 01/03/2024 1:13:25 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: DallasBiff

Well, I’m not a fat black overweight lesbian.

Who can I sue for not being a Chicago mayor, a Harvard president or even the DIE director of a major corporation?


12 posted on 01/03/2024 1:14:09 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: DallasBiff

Even if he were very fit, it wouldn’t do having a student teacher conduct his gym class virtually. Much of the learning in gym comes not just by playing ball games, but by learning proper socialization with peers.
A teacher needs to be physically on sight to notice unsportsmanlike behavior and do something about it right awa.


13 posted on 01/03/2024 1:17:43 PM PST by lee martell
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To: ClearCase_guy
Those who can...do.
Those who can't...teach.
And those who can't teach...teach gym.
14 posted on 01/03/2024 1:22:08 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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I see large student loan debt with a useless degree in this guys future...

That's the first half of the story. The second half is, it all gets paid off, with interest, after he gets done cleaning out the pockets of the school systems for discrimination.

15 posted on 01/03/2024 1:23:50 PM PST by pfflier
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To: DallasBiff

I did have one in junior high that was at least 350.....even at 14 years old I had a really hard time taking him seriously.


16 posted on 01/03/2024 1:25:00 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Jonty30

Does diameter count?

Peach


17 posted on 01/03/2024 1:26:16 PM PST by CarolinaPeach
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To: V_TWIN

Reminds of Mark Mangino, the former Kansas head football coach, who must have weighed at least 400 pounds.


18 posted on 01/03/2024 1:27:19 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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19 posted on 01/03/2024 1:33:27 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: DallasBiff

I had a very obese gym teacher in jr high.

NOBODY had any respect for her and no one felt she had any right to tell us how to be healthy.


20 posted on 01/03/2024 1:34:13 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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