Title Nine Controversy
Again from JJ's Garage:
If you follow men's issues, you know that Title IX was supposed to end inequalities in academic sports programs between men and women, but over the years, it has grown more into a multi-purpose tool used to discriminate against men and their programs in unforeseen ways. Now, a male high school football coach is entering the controversy by claiming a female athletic director and school principal has violated his civil rights, and violated the Title IX act by claiming the female athletic director showed disproportionate favoritism towards the girl's basketball team over the boy's team. Some of the charges are as follows:
- The male principle claimed he was not following his "contractual agreement" and therefore, made the decision to fire him. This in spite of the coach creating a basketball program that now ranks as the best boys high school basketball team in the state of Illinois, is ranked 22nd nationally, and has compiled a record of 108-23 in his first four years as coach. - Fueling his gender favoritism claim is the fact that his he was replaced by the school's female basketball head coach. - The girl's team was allowed to ride in coach buses to games while the boys had to ride in substandard buses. - The boys were denied use of the gym facilities in favor of the girls.
- School sponsored scholarships were awarded only to female athletes. Sadly, as you read the articles, you will find that nobody seems to really care if the boys were discriminated against. Not the principal, the Chicago Public School management, nor the Chicago Teachers Union. They all are copping out on the issue. Ask yourself, if the genders were reversed, do you think all these same people would openly ignore the situation? "Boys vs. girls" "Bryant is pressing issue to court: Dismissed basketball coach files lawsuit against Marshall"
It gets even worse. I have an old article from National Review on how Title Nine is killing men's sports at historically African-American college Howard University. I will try to post it in the near future.
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