Posted on 05/15/2012 11:43:45 AM PDT by Paladins Prayer
You would think that after decades of Title IX enforcement, sex discrimination in school sports would be a thing of the past. But this isnt the case in Suffolk County, New York, where a skilled student-athlete is being denied the right to compete in sports based solely on sex.
The child is 13-year-old Keeling Pilaro, who for the last two years has been a member of Southampton High School girls field hockey team. He tried out for it and was allowed to play because there are no boys field hockey teams anywhere in the county. So whats the problem now?
Hes too good, say Suffolk officials.
(Translation: hes a boy who is too good.)
To many, Keelings exclusion may seem entirely intuitive and just. This is why we have separate sports categories for men and women, boys and girls, right? Not so fast.
Title IX, the federal legislation mandating equal opportunity for the sexes in schools, has long been interpreted to mean that a student must be allowed to try out for an opposite-sex team if theres no corresponding team for his sex. Because of this, girls have occasionally appeared on boys teams. In fact, a traditionalist Catholic Arizona high school just forfeited the Arizona Charter Athletic Association championship because of the presence of a female player on the opposing team.
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Wrong. There should be no mixing of the sexes whatsoever in sports. To do so blurs the distinctions between them and is part of a very destructive agenda.
Besides, it isn’t just in the area of size and strength that boys are superior. They also, in general, have more talent and therefore can develop greater skill. So just because a boy is small and relatively weak doesn’t mean that he wouldn’t have an advantage in girls’ sports.
—The old-fashioned segregation is probably good enough for all but non-competitive intramural-type sports.—
I think that is especially true when you consider why there are those kinds of sports in school to begin with: To give kids an outlet that keeps them from getting too up close and personal with each other.
Girls and boys playing together defeats the whole purpose of why there are school sports.
Yes, good point. Also, though, another higher purpose of sports is to instill character and mold boys into men. This is undermined when you include females.
Boys have a right to a masculine environment without a feminist agenda intruding and making a mockery of it.
“it’s about bringing down those WITH”
You win the thread.
What are you talking about? I came down on the side of keeping them segregated, except for the slightest of non-competitive intramural sports.
That’s adult life: co-ed volleyball and the like, and it’s how girls and boys sometimes play sports outside of a school context.
Lacrosse is scary, with those hard little balls zooming around at head level!
I apologize. I think I got your post confused with someone else’s.
Having said that, I oppose the mixing of the sexes at all levels in sports. I have my reasons, of course.
But we can agree to disagree on that.
Fair enough. I’d consider the mildest of coed sports to be like organized school dances—a managed environment for boys and girls to interact. But everyone might not support that.
—Boys have a right to a masculine environment without a feminist agenda intruding and making a mockery of it.—
Yeah. Sometimes, with a lot of stuff going on, I would like to see our leaders and politicians (and public) respond thusly:
Homosexual marriage? No. It’s a stupid idea. Now, what’s for dinner...
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