You’ve seen it on ESPN time and time again, People with disabilities working with non-disabled people who do sports is one of the best things a parent of a child who has a disability can do for their kid.
My favorite sport growing up was basketball, so as a person who has a disability, I worked the basketball games keeping track of fouls. One day I used to go to basketball games when I was in high school student, I can remember one day I was approached by the athletic director at the time if I wanted to keep track of fouls so I did, and the best part of it is that I got paid.
Dong that, at the time was one if not the only bright spot from high school, mainly I was participating in a sport that was my favorite and did I mention it paid?
As ESPN has documented working as a high school manager can be good not just for people with disabilities but it can be good for the non-disabled people on the team.
People on the team get to know the kid with a disability as a person not just that kid with a disability who’s working on the team as a person with a disability.
Kids need guidance in life and need to have life lessons to teach them what life is like.
Having a person with a disability work on a high school team sport is invaluable because the person with a disability can learn from the non-disabled person and vice versa.
Kids need to be taught at a young age to work together whether they have a disability or not, It can only make the world a better place because the world needs it.
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