Title IX video

Stossel's story is a perfect example of how the media takes an extreme example and wants to make you think it's the norm. I have a two athletes in the family. One is a nineteen year old girl now playing college softball (lettered in three sports in high school) and a fourteen year old son who's playing three sports in high school.

Title IX got the girls equal facilities at the high school when they didn't exist. That's fair. Girls shouldn't have a beat up, hand me down mold infested locker room while the boys have a new one. The baseball field shouldn't be perfectly groomed by mainteance while the softball field is lucky to get mowed every week. Title IX got all this issues fixed while my daughter was at the high school. While she was there, the girls won more conference titles and sent more athletes on to college sports. There were two girls on Jr Team USA teams and only one boy. While most of our high school teams are good, the school has excelled in girls sports.

Here's where Title IX goes astray. The boys basketball team went to play in a big name basketball tournament in Florida over Christmas break. Since our metro area is a basketball hotbed, the girls didn't want to go. They wanted to play in a local tournament. The boy's team raised the money to go to Florida. The school was sued for inequitable distribution of funds even though the money was raised by the team.

One of our neighbors has a daughter who can't walk and chew gum. She never played sports. She went to a college that was under the threat of a Title IX lawsuit. The college started a crew team. This non athletic neighbor is now on a full scholarship for crew even though she's not athletic and the crew team stinks. How did she get on the team? The team was recruited the first year by begging girls on the campus sidewalks to come out.

While this crew team and the girl's free ride is the benefit of Title IX, it ticks me off my daughter's competitive college softball team only gets twelve rides (NCAA rules). Players can only get partials after training hard for years to be competent college athletes.

Wow TG! We personally know of a women's crew situation nearly identical to the one you've described. I'll be a little vague...the team rows on a tributary of the Tombigbee River.

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by TG: This story is a perfect example of how the media takes an extreme example and wants to make you think it's the norm

ya had me going with that line ... until the rest of your post backed up Stossel's story

by the way, re the (travel) funds lawsuit - you'll likely find a settlement was reached before it got to court, as defending is expesive & HS's p-e-e their pants at the slightest hint of a lawsuit being filed - even if it has NO merit

Bee:
Exactly!

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Originally posted by Bee>:
... by the way, re the (travel) funds lawsuit - you'll likely find a settlement was reached before it got to court, as defending is expesive & HS's p-e-e their pants at the slightest hint of a lawsuit being filed - even if it has NO merit

The locker room, the softball field, the trip and several other Title IX issues were all bundled in one lawsuit. I thought the travel issue was over the top. The girls chose not to go and not raise money. There was a settlement. The next X amount of booster money went to the girls budget. All the facilities got fixed to an equal level.