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To: oh8eleven
This situation has been mishandled, possibly on both sides. This is not a gender-bender issue. This girl agrees that she is a girl. There is no game-playing involved. She just wants to play basketball. Since there is no girls' team, I would have no objection to a special accommodation. She doesn't have to dress and shower with the boys; she just wants to practice with them.

That said, there are some missing details. Is there nowhere else that she could play? Is the school so small that it has a no-cut policy in basketball? (If it's a competitive situation, the chances of her making a boys team are remote.) What were the prior discussions between the school and the parents? This smells like one of those situations that reached a climax before any (emotionally mature) adults got involved in the discussion, which is not uncommon in youth sports.

29 posted on 02/02/2017 9:53:01 AM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx
I would have no objection to a special accommodation.
And how long before every team, every organization in the school, and diocese for that matter, have to start offering special accommodations?
34 posted on 02/02/2017 10:00:57 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: sphinx

The school had a policy. It stuck to it. The father said, “Oh no you don’t.”

Well, oh yes they did.

If you don’t like the policies of an organization, don’t be a part of that organization.

Since this is so important to dear old dad, he should pack up the family and move to a place where the school has a girl’s team.

This school has zero obligation to this family, when it comes to bending the rules.

Girls are really happy to have girl exclusive things, like clubs and events. Some even like going to an all girl school. Fine. It works the other way around too.

Guys have a right to an all guy thing too. Who knew?

Title 9? Private school. Title 9 sucks anyway.

Men are wired to be active. They have a need to compete in sports, and it’s physical as well as mental.

Girls can sit in class all day from an early age. Boys go bat S crazy if they can’t get outside and burn off energy.

Boys are different than girls, no matter what Leftists think.


53 posted on 02/02/2017 12:39:11 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: sphinx

A religious school certainly has the right to decide what sports if any it will make coed. Period.


54 posted on 02/02/2017 1:53:00 PM PST by Stingray51
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To: sphinx

I second your entire post.


58 posted on 02/02/2017 4:45:10 PM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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