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Ark. mother sues district, state for Constitutional violation after son cut from varsity team

An Arkansas mother has sued her son's high school for cutting her son from the school's varsity basketball team, claiming that he was deprived the right of a full education because he was not allowed to take part in school athletics.

The Mamuelle boys basketball team — iHigh

As reported by Arkansas Matters and USA Today, among other sources, the mother of a Maumelle (Ark.) High freshman, a woman named Teresa Bloodman, filed suit against the school, district and state after her son was replaced on the school's basketball team following a third set of tryouts for the team that re-incorporated members of the school's football team.

Bloodman's son, who is a minor and was not named in the suit, spent two months as part of the team after qualifying through two tryouts in August only to be replaced three months later by a member of the football team, as were nine of the team's 11 original players.

Mamuelle High School — EdLine.net

While those replacements might stoke claims of favoritism, the lawsuit filed by Bloodman goes much further, claiming that her son has a Constitutional right to participate in school sports, as you can read in the excerpt from the filed suit directly below.

"…the deprivation of the right to a full and complete education which includes competition in sports and consequently athletic scholarships impairs John Doe of a property right guaranteed under both the U.S. and State Constitutions."

The suit further alleges that the sheer lack of an orderly appeals process for students who were cut is also a violation of due process.


While the case itself could serve as a watershed in how schools hold tryouts for varsity sports, the attorney for the Pulaski County Special School District is confident that it will be seen as groundless once it is further examined in a court of law.

"The simple issue here is whether or not a student has a right to participate in extra-curricular activities; be it band, choir or whatever," Pulaski County Special School District attorney Jay Bequette told Arkansas Matters. "There is no clearly established right of parents to have their children compete in interscholastic athletics."


Added: May-9-2012 Occurred On: May-9-2012
By: barogers619
In: Regional News
Tags: Rights, entitlement, sports, varsity
Location: Arkansas, United States (load item map)
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  • This is why we have occupy protesters and people with entitlement issues.

    This is going to open up a whole new can of worms. No more competitive sports.

    For those of you that haven't. Check out the book called 'The coach' It is a short and easy read. Shows you how fucked up parents are today and how they turn kids into whiny little cry babies.

    Posted May-9-2012 By 
    Kafirindareelharb (918.66)  
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    • @Kafirindareelharb ...whiny cry babies don't go far in any sport.

      Posted May-9-2012 By 
      Nepean109 (1011.60)  

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    • @Kafirindareelharb Actually this MIGHT be a GOOD thing.. if this stupid bitch actually manages to WIN.. well they might just stop turning our SCHOOLS into a fucking farm-system for big league sports and college recruiters!!
      I'd LOVE to see ALL HS sports made "Pay-TO-Play"... it would also stop head-stuffed idiots from basing their lives on their KIDS sports careers.....

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      nexus1961 (431.04)  

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  • nowhere in the constitution or any state constitution does it say you have the right to a gobernment funded and run education with athletics as part of the curriculum.

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  • Fucking crazy talk

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  • : "for cutting her son from the school's varsity basketball team, claiming that he was deprived the right of a full education because he was not allowed to take part in school athletics."
    What the fuck is the point of having tryouts if you can't cut the weak players? THAT'S THE WHOLE GOD DAMNED POINT OF TRYOUTS! I hate when people want to reward mediocrity.

    He's obviously not going to get a scholarship if a high school team is cutting him.

    More entitlement douchebaggery. This la More..

    Posted May-9-2012 By 
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    • @jum_runky he made it through the tryouts. But, when football season ended two months into the basketball season, they had tryouts again and he washed out. It doesn't seem right to restructure the team once it's been formed for the season. As for being unconstitutional, she's crazy.

      Posted May-9-2012 By 
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    • @Punch_The_Monkey

      If you want to win, you use your best players. It's not "fair" but too bad; that's how things are. You won't win championships by playing your weaker players.

      If you want to play for fun, join a rec team that isn't competitive.

      Life favours those with talent -- as it should. Some people seem to resent that. Generally, I find it's the people who suck at what they're attempting to do who get bent out of shape.

      Not attacking you personally, just saying ;)

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    • @Punch_The_Monkey ...I agree with PunchTheMonkey, I don't think its good for team cohesion or moral to flush half the players when football season ends.

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  • In my schoolFreshmen couldn't play Varsity. Only JV.

    Posted May-9-2012 By 
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  • Yeah, we always called them 'bench warmers'

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  • If this isn't coming from a black woman I'd be very VERY surprised..
    WHAT a headful of SHIT does it take to come up with "Constitutional right to participate in sports".. to quote Bugs Bunny....
    WHATTA MAROON!!!

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  • Throw that bitch in jail, let her share a cell with a massive 300lbs concrete-lesbo, and may she have to survive on camel toe-soup..

    This is pure insanity!!!

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  • Smells like TNB.

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  • let me get this straight , as i am feeling cnn news here , there black , so they can play foot ball and basketball , so they can make sure they get to collage , right

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    • @kiska ...I checked again - color or race are not mentioned at all - do you "see black people" like that Sixth Sense kid that "sees dead people"?

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    • @Nepean109 i do now days , when they say a white man did this , or a white man did that . Well when you get there was a man with a tan shirt , jeans , a hoody , and not one ting about the color of his skin , on so we are looking for either what , there dectives , and put out a look , why look all over , please , ...........

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  • I see discrimination. But it won't make it to the news if it's a white person getting cut, being replaced by a black person.

    Posted May-9-2012 By 
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  • The boy probably still has access to intramural and in-class sports so the loss is a "privilege", not a necessity and so, not a "right". If he hopes to make the team next year, he should tell his mom to shut up.

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    Nepean109 (1011.60)  

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  • LoL, poor kid's probably embarrassed as all hell.

    Posted May-9-2012 By 
    Zardoz003 (1572.22)  

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