Posted on 02/02/2017 9:14:59 AM PST by oh8eleven
The New Jersey seventh-grader whose family sued the Catholic school that refused to let her play basketball on the boys team was abruptly expelled from her middle school Wednesday.
The parents of 12-year-old Sydney Phillips were sent a letter from an Archdiocese of Newark lawyer saying that both Sydney and her sister Kaitlyn should not attend St. Theresa “tomorrow morning or any day thereafter.”
The Phillips family was hoping Sydney would be able to play with the boys after the girls team was disbanded last school year.
When the Kenilworth school nixed that idea, her dad took legal action against the archdiocese and St. Theresa.
Apparently the school charter maintains that it can boot a student whose family brings a suit against it.
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Club sports are fine, but they don’t have the cachet of the school teams.Not every parent would agree with you that it doesn’t matter if their son makes a school team or not. My son didn’t have that problem, but one of his classmates was borderline - in athletics and I guess elsewhere as well. He made the volleyball team, and his mother was thrilled with its effect on him. He did not make the basketball team, the same mother was up in arms.
It’s a tough thing.
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