New baseball field sparks Title IX dispute

Submitted by Mastodon on Thu, 2012-11-22 10:11

Article here. Excerpt:

'The opening of a new multi-million dollar baseball field in Sitka earlier this fall is polarizing the community in an unexpected way: Can or should it be used for softball, too?

Gender equity in public education – including activities like sports – is governed by a federal statute known as Title IX.
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“This whole issue, it’s kind of petty. Where we’ve got one team saying, Hey, your new field is better than my new field, so we want your new field. Then we get Title IX thrown at us, to be displaced off of our field and get the girls on.”

Displacing the boys is at the heart of the argument for most parents who spoke on behalf of the baseball team during the two-hour work session. In establishing equity, Title IX should not disadvantage one gender to create opportunity for the other.'

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Even a casual reading of Title IX indicates that the women-dominated courses are way out of compliance, for almost every university and college in the country.
We’re going to have to cut back the number of women in French, English, Nursing, Drama, Art, etc. until they match the number of men in those courses.
However, it is probably far too late; men and their lawyers have a good case by now. They’re going to sue the $$$$ out of institutions of higher learning.

Any comments?

CTW

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Submitted by chuck on Thu, 2012-11-22 21:23