Jan 292013
On the heels of last week’s directive instructing schools to include students with disabilities in athletics when possible, the Star Tribune looks at the progress Minnesota has already made in making extracurricular activities inclusive of everyone. While a gap still exists between rural and metropolitan school districts, Minnesota has a long history of maintaining adaptive sports leagues for students with disabilities. Other states may want to look to Minnesota as a model when establishing their own adaptive athletics programs.
If Wisconsin had had something comparable when I was a kid, I might not have been so contemptuous of gym class.
