Thursday, August 25, 2016

Wheelchair basketball

I arranged a game last week at a teen center. It was not really a game but an experiential activity. It worked really well (after I was told "NO" about 22 times when I asked to borrow chairs. The director asked to have an actual game which I'm working on. This was not only a good way to reach otherwise uninterested kids but also a health way to introduce inclusion hence "games not guns." I am not a proponent of talking and meeting, there has to be a next step to engage these at-risk kids who are more bored than anything else. Once the are doing something fun, constructive, and meaningful, then we can talk WITH them about the usual racial concerns. We solved a little of the problem without even trying.

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