New article up!

[rhiannontherose]

I have another new Examiner article up. This one was prompted by a video that's been making the rounds on the 'net recently. Clicky clicky, please.

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[not_hothead_yet]

I think the issue for a lot of caregivers isn't whether or not to give a child a chance but "is the possibility of payoff outweigh the possibility of dismal, discouraging humiliating failure

[rhiannontherose]

"Because although Jason may be a decent player in practice with his teammates, there's nothing whatsoever that says when Jason got on a court with real opponents he will be able to do an effective job."No, there isn't, in general. Although, from the information I'd found on the story thus far, there was no evidence that he had ever played with his teammates, to either support or fail to support that possibility. (As I understood it, this was the first time Jason suited up, and in the embedded video, if I remember correctly, the coach says this wasn't necessarily to mean he would actually play, but just to let him feel a little bit of what it is like to be in the game. And then, "After years of fetching water, and toweling off his teammates, Jason was finally in the game" -- I think that was in one of the vids.) I didn't find anything about his teammates ever seeing him do anything play-related, until the incident of the newsblip, which was, as I understood it, a formal game against a rival team. The end of the last game of their

[not_hothead_yet]

and maybe the "unbelieveability" of the shot was because they already know he isn't that good of a player. Maybe it DIDN'T have anything to do with his disability and everything to do with his playing ability. Maybe the only reason he's the "manager" is because of his disability. Maybe if he were neurotypical he wouldn't even get to do that.

[rhiannontherose]

"Maybe it DIDN'T have anything to do with his disability and everything to do with his playing ability."

The only info. I found on that issue was that he automatically didn't qualify for the team, because of his height. So perhaps, yes, it's quite likely that he got to be "manager" because of his disability, instead of no part of the team at all. And maybe he could've been a great player, and maybe not. But I still question why, if you're going to give your special "manager" that kind of chance to prove it one way or the other, you wait until THEN.