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    LET AIDEN PLAY! Urgent - Time Sensitive!

    The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) is denying my son, Aiden Assad, from playing basketball at his high school during his senior year due to an eligibility/transfer rule. The rule comes from an outdated and discriminatory set of guidelines that are unfairly administered most often against minority students. This discriminatory penalization occurs because the rules were not designed to consider — in any way — the challenges unique to Black families in America. It is known that schools do not always follow this rule (it is currently happening right now!)  Aiden moved in with his father the day his junior year ended to help him recover and heal from a significant health challenge (which his father beat!) Aiden's father lives in the same school district where Aiden attends high school. I, his mother, work at the same high school Aiden attends. They are saying since Aiden moved from one school district to another, he is ineligible to play. From Aiden’s father: Madison, we love showing up for black boys and girls when it’s too late; when they are dead or on the way to prison is when we show up. But when they accomplish great things we don’t acknowledge them enough. Why Madison, do we only want to hear of the trauma of black students, and never the triumph of black students? This is far more than my son just playing basketball. This is about America keeping its agreement to our youth. We constantly tell our children that doing things the right way will put them on the right path. My son Aiden is the epitome of the right way. A 3.4 student, a lovely, appropriate young man, a young man who spends most of his time mad at me, and that’s okay too. As my caretaker, Aiden would walk me to the bathroom, pick me up from the toilet, walk me to the shower, feed me and inspire me. All the while going to work and going back to school at Verona. Aiden didn’t ask for these things, but he stood up like the loving child he is. I, Coach Assad, fight for the dignity of all students. Let’s show our students that the American dream is not the American scheme. Aiden is an excellent example of black youth triumph. Let’s start recognizing the triumphs and not just the traumas. I am the proud father of two incredible black men. I have fought for your children, help me in the fight for mine. The WIAA keeps moving the goalpost on us. They asked us to send letters to the high school athletic director explaining the extenuating circumstances. We did that. Then they asked us to get a letter from Aiden’s father’s doctor stating he went through this significant medical issue. We did that. Then they asked us to have the doctor send a letter stating Aiden was his father’s caretaker. We did that. Then they asked for the prior school district to sign off on a letter stating they were okay with Aiden playing in the new school district. WE DID ALL OF THIS! And he is STILL being denied.  Now they are telling this young man, who has a 3.4 gpa, who is selfless, has been working part time at Dick's Sporting Goods for the last two years, helps at home that he cannot play. WE NEED YOUR HELP! PLEASE SUPPORT AIDEN!  Thank you! THE TRANSFER RULE “A student who transfers from any school into a member school after the sixth consecutive semester following entry into grade 9 shall be ineligible for competition at any level for one calendar year, but may practice, unless the transfer is made necessary by a total and complete change in residence by parent(s).” Eligibility waivers include: Residence and Transfer - No standard form Basis of consideration: - Documented extenuating circumstances (unforeseeable/unknowable events: significant, forced/involuntary change that mitigates the rule) THE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCE IS HIS FATHER’S UNKNOWN/UNFORESEEABLE MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS - they are still denying us! https://www.wiaawi.org/Portals/0/PDF/Eligibility/transferrules.pdf  

    Shannon Kelly
    Verona, WI, United States
    42,020
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    • Shannon Kelly Verona, WI, United States
    • 42,020 supporters
    • Created Dec 12, 2021
    Petition to Governor Greg Abbott, Chris Torn, United States Senator Ted Cruz, United States Senator John Cornyn, State Representative Andrew Murr, State Senator Dawn Buckingham, State Representative Tracy King...

    Stop plans to dump treated sewage into the sensitive Upper Nueces River Basin in Texas

    … sensitive small creeks and streams of the Upper Nueces River Basin. The Upper Nueces River Basin must be … protected. It’s a sensitive water resource comprised of many small spring-fed streams feeding the…

    Friends of Hondo Canyon
    23,424
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    • Friends of Hondo Canyon
    • 23,424 supporters
    • Created Aug 16, 2019
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    Petition to Dr Sitembele W. Vatala

    Stop Knysna Municipality plan to use a sensitive lagoon front property for a Taxi Holding

    … environmentally sensitive area, directly next to the Boardwalk of the Knysna Estuary, 10 Auction Mart Avenue … vehicle traffic will severely impact this extremely sensitive area, home to our local birdlife which…

    Andre Kruger
    Knysna, South Africa
    21,605
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    • Andre Kruger Knysna, South Africa
    • 21,605 supporters
    • Created Nov 7, 2019
    Petition to Karen Bass

    FIND FOREVER HOMES FOR FOSTER YOUTH BY KEEPING THEIR SENSITIVE PLACEMENT HISTORY PRIVATE!!

    Teenagers have the hardest time finding a forever home while in foster care. Most of the time teens aren’t even given a chance before they have judgments made against them. Often times when foster youth cannot find a foster home or group home to be placed in they are placed in a juvenile hall or a mental hospital until a placement is available for them to go to. This information then transfers onto the youths placement history which is available for all potential foster parents to look at before accepting the youth. When juvenile hall or a mental hospital is on the youth placement record it does not explain that it was an “emergency placement” it only states that they were placed in those locations. So the first thing that would run through a foster parents mind is that they had broke the law or that they need some type of mental help that the foster parent would not be able to provide. First of all foster youth should NEVER be placed in those locations to begin with! They should always have a hotel voucher ready for them! A lot of really great Foster teens are left without any homes available to them, which can result in homeless teens and young adults all because their placement records are available for foster parents to see. This should not be allowed it should all be private. Your signature and you sharing this information will mean the world to me and to other foster youth in the world. 

    Samantha Corvera
    United States
    23,015
    Supporters
    • Samantha Corvera United States
    • 23,015 supporters
    • Created May 19, 2021
    Petition to Secretary , Chairman - Expert Committee for Eco-sensitive Zones

    Declare 1km Eco Sensitive Zone for KBR National Park Instead of Shrinking It!

    …Problem statement: Expert Committee for Eco-sensitive Zones (of Ministry of Environment and Forests …) has recommended re-notification of eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) for Kasu Brahmananda Reddy (KBR) Park … examine how meaningful this almost zero zone would be. Eco-sensitive zone, around KBR Park, should be…

    Citizens For Hyderabad
    Hyderabad, India
    20,730
    Supporters
    • Citizens For Hyderabad Hyderabad, India
    • 20,730 supporters
    • Created Dec 16, 2018
    Petition to Aux députés de la Répulique de l'île Maurice, Aux candidats aux élections législatives 2019 de l'île Maurice

    Manifeste en faveur du Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) Bill

    … SENSITIVE AREAS (ESAs) - NOS TRESORS NATURELS Une loi pour les ESAs La Société Civile signataire de ce … :“A study of Environmentally Sensitive Areas in Mauritius and Rodrigues” - ESA study 2009 - Les 3…

    Eco-Sud
    3,562
    Supporters
    • Eco-Sud
    • 3,562 supporters
    • Created Sep 16, 2019
    Petition to City of pickering, residents of Pickering

    Environmentally sensitive land

    …, contains "environmentally sensitive" areas for plants and wildlife, as defined by the Environmental…

    Fairport Beach Neighbourhood Association
    65
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    • Fairport Beach Neighbourhood Association
    • 65 supporters
    • Created Jun 24, 2020
    Petition to The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), Manisha Kapoor, ASCI Secretary General , Mr. Subhash Kamath, Chairperson (ASCI)

    ASCI: Issue gender sensitive guidelines for advertising companies and accredit them.

    … ) creating gender sensitive commercials to bring about a social change. ASCI must honor the … advertising companies creating gender sensitive commercials on the eve of International Womxn's Day i.e. March 8, 2021.  #CommercialsForChange …

    Ananya Saha
    Santiniketan, India
    6,021
    Supporters
    • Ananya Saha Santiniketan, India
    • 6,021 supporters
    • Created Jan 24, 2021
    Petition to Fédération Equestre Internationale - FEI

    Hands OFF Whiskers - Ban the clipping of sensitive Horse Vibrissae

    … by clipping of the sensitive whiskers on the muzzle and around the eyes of the horse have no health…

    World Bitless Association
    1,773
    Supporters
    • World Bitless Association
    • 1,773 supporters
    • Created Feb 11, 2020
    Petition to CM Pinarayi Vijayan

    Save Eco-sensitive zone Kottiyoor

    Kottiyoor is a part of Northern Western Ghats, (WWF code IM0135), it is classified as a Tropical broad leaf forest. The region is a transition zone between the moist Cullenia-dominated forest in south to drier Dipterocarp forests in north. The region is classified under Critical biodiversity hot spot. The Kottiyoor forest is a part of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve. Kottiyoor is connected to Wayanad through the Brahmagiri valley which is rich in wild flora and fauna. Where Construction work for a building complex, apparently a resort, by demolishing the side of a hill at Palchuram area near Kottiyoor in the hilly terrains of the district, without the permission of authorities, has led to serious environmental concerns. The place had suffered heavily in the rain last year and it is an environmentally fragile area. It was in January that the construction work began by demolishing the hill and building roads. Even a small bridge was built across a river to the site in an eight-acre plot, without the permission of authorities. Though the village authorities had issued a stop memo and asked people behind the project to stop the construction activities, they have not paid any heed to it. Last year, the ghat road here, Palchuram, was destroyed in the flash flood and landslide and the entire area had suffered heavily. Moreover, the place is environmentally fragile and many places there have the issue of soil piping, following which there is restriction on construction.  On top of that this construction is coming between Periya - kottiyoor Elephant Corridor, The state government has submitted before Kerala High Court that the plan to restore the natural elephant corridors, especially Periya-Kottiyoor Elephant Corridor Project is moving in a positive direction. Once it becomes successful, it will provide a lengthy passage connecting the landscape of Bandipur and Nagarhole Tiger Reserve to Wayanad, Kozhikode and Malappuram (Nilambur) and Mudumalai Tiger Reserve and other forest landscapes of Tamil Nadu, it submitted. So these kind constructions will affect a lot of people living near that area like landslides and also animal conflict due to clearing the forest. Help me sign the petition to reach the authorities.  

    Akhil Johny
    Kannur, India
    265
    Supporters
    • Akhil Johny Kannur, India
    • 265 supporters
    • Created Jun 26, 2020
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