The important thing is, Eric Dompierre gets to play basketball for Ishpeming High next season.

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While Dompierre had spent his whole life in the Ispheming, Mich.

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But state high school associations, as Michigan did to allow Dompierre to keep playing, are waking up and creating rules that clearly spell out how a school can allow a special-needs student to be part of a team without creating an unusual competitive advantage.

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