That little girl might go to a better school than USC and be more successful than your accountant friend whose Daddy handed him the business. And that kid could hear anyway. Your anecdote is worse than useless. Talk about being a prisoner of your limited experience.

It is the freaking girl scouts. They should have found a way to work with the parents. Reasonable people would have found a solution that would have cost nothing with all of the technology we have in 2012. I’ve said earlier I’m betting the parents were not reasonable based on just a hunch on the limited evidence we have. I also would not be surprised if the girl scouts were pretty inflexible in the way they approached these (maybe) difficult parents.

Kids don’t “accommodate” friends. They make friendships. And, in this case? The lawsuit pretty much demonstrates a parent who is using her kid’s deafness … to create a “bind.”

Do the other parents have to come up with a wheelchair?

Where does it stop?

It’s a VOLUNTEER PROGRAM for kids. And, because of the costs associated with one “deaf since birth” girl … who has not learned to lip read … shows ya her parents aren’t too concerned about her handicap to give her the skills she needed to get by in a hearing world.

My accountant is deaf. He went to USC. He has no trouble reading lips. And, he has no trouble now taking over his dad’s lucrative firm.

I met him when he was a kid. And, his dad was my accountant. He came into the office, on he had on his belt, in the back, heavy duty batteries that enabled him to hear.

That’s what’s missing for this 12 year old girl!

When the troop dissolved? Whatever friendships had been built over time, went out the window.

Why? Because people don’t like getting their pockets picked.

And, being in the Girl Scouts is more than just selling cookies. And, earning badges.

The deaf kid’s parents should be ashamed!

As for the Internet rules, I was making a joke. Every single person who read that knew that it was a joke (I guess except you).

Then? Costs became prohibitive.

This is not the first troop to find itself facing financial shortfalls.

And, ALL THE GIRLS have been told that the Girl Scouting activities in their lives is over.

So, now the deaf girl’s parents sue? Whom are they suing? Why the Girl Scouts of America, of course!

Wouldn’t this whack any friendship that might have grown between some of the girls?

Plus, how come this child who has been deaf since birth … cannot read lips?

What if the girls who belonged to the troop “outgrew” their participation?

That means, to finish my post two posts back: The number of boxes to cover $7,630.00 in costs would be in the range of 7,630 (@ $1.00/box) to 21,800 (@ $0.35/box) boxes, at a minimum.

52 weeks x $110 per week = $5,720.00

and that is before any weekends, outings, cookie sales at grocery stores, Girl Scout Roundup’s, etc. If the total time from those, for example, is approximately another 1/3 more hours, now you’re looking at an approximate total around $7,630.00.

How much of that Girl Scout Council’s budget–much less the troop’s available monies–would be taken up with that cost…or, how many boxes of Girl Scout Cookies would it take to cover the estimated cost? (If there are any Girl Scouts or Girl Scout Council members out there that can say how much the Girl Scouts get per box, jump in and let us know; I don’t know.)

And this is supposed to be a “reasonable accommodation”???

To put it without any jokes, quips or attempts at creative solutions as I have tried earlier in this particular thread, the ADA is a good-intentioned piece of legislation that has been used to game the entire system. The results have been some gains for the handicapped, but the primary beneficiaries seem to have been lawyers and the difference in the two is paid in resentment. If the Girl Scouts shut down that troop rather than continuing to pay for the cost of an interpreter, then the lesson learned is that you better keep away from the handicapped, because it’s going to cost you a lot of money nd heartache and lawsuits in the end. Even if the Girl Scouts win the suit, it’s still going to cost them a lot of money to defend it.

Finally, the proper attitude to take if I believe the Girl Scouts have shut down my daughter’s troop so they can save a few lousy dollars is to take it to the press and expose them for the lousy hypocrites they are. I do not want my daughter associating with them and their rotten cookies.

Bob