LTHS Gym Class

Lockport Township High School Physical Education Class Provides Dual Lesson for Students

Lockport Township High School District 205 physical education teacher Don McKillip not only is helping his students to stay physically fit this school year; he is also teaching them a lesson in life. Mr. McKillip and Stacy Sparlin, another physical education teacher at LTHS, share three students with disabilities who are confined to wheelchairs. Because these students had some difficulty competing in some of the physical education activities, Mr. McKillip decided to expand his curriculum to incorporate wheelchairs in some of them.

Mr. McKillip asked the faculty and staff at LTHS to donate wheelchairs to the Physical Education Department and was contacted by LTHS mathematics teacher Robert Hughes, whose father, Roger T. Hughes, is the chairman of the Operations Committee at the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Chicago. Roger Hughes, in cooperation with the United Cerebral Palsy Association, was able to donate ten wheelchairs to Mr. McKillip and his students. As a result, LTHS students have the opportunity to compete in physical education programs while maneuvering in wheelchairs. Mr. McKillip has begun with a basketball program, but expects to expand the wheelchair use to other activities as well, such as volleyball and others. "The benefits of this program are that students who may never have sat in a wheelchair can now empathize with those who have only known life in a wheelchair," said Don McKillip. "The students who do use wheelchairs and have often felt excluded and isolated in these activities can now feel like they are one of the team. This has been an exceptionally rewarding experience for me."

Stacy Sparlin has also enjoyed the new program. "To see the students' faces light up—that's what is really exciting about this program. These students now are getting a new perspective on life, and I find that to be the neatest part of it." The students enjoy the games and are more than happy to do something that is cutting-edge in physical education. "I find it difficult to maneuver the (wheel) chair," said Paige Ditchman, a student in Ms. Sparlin's class. "But I am so happy to have experienced something new and to be able to see the challenges of the disabled."

Category:

Education

Tags:

• LTHS
• Gym
• Class
• Disabled
• Students
• Athletics
• Physical
• Education

[bottemsup45]

sparlin is a dike

[AustinThomas97]

Cannon is the best gym teacher no doubt lol

[cheerbabixx3]

hahha i hadd spalin last yeaar. shes the shit.

[yourlittlepuppydog13]

ohh miss sparlin :)

[8kupkake]

lmao at all the mrs sparlin comments, i had her as a gym teacher

[stonesandbones1]

sparlenator

cannon is way better

[alicja49]

I'm on my mom's account cos she doesn't like me logging outta this, but hey, watch what you say. I mean, seriously. You're that immature to say something THAT downright low about another person? Sparlin wasn't that bad, you're just a moron.

[bbas92]

Ghey, they are in wheel chairs cause they got butt raped by that dyke so hard.

[dvnwnd07]

lmfao

[evondizzle]

you're all cocksuckers.