February 4, 200818 yr Solution? Single Sex schools! Everyone keeps their own loot! I would be SO FOR THAT!!!!!!!!! Although I don't think that would let a school district out of the Title IX issue.
February 4, 200818 yr Probably keep my son more focused on his schoolwork too . . . . :laugh: In all seriousness, both my son and my daughter LOVED single sex schools. My daughter didn't have to worry about makeup, etc. She also felt like she could be more open in how she asked for help, or responded in class, because she didn't have to worry about a boy thinking she was stupid. She, more than my son, really became a less shy, and much more confident person as a result. My son mentions to this day that it kept a lot of the "he-man" drama out of school, when boys are trying to outdo one another for the girls' attention. He was always pretty confident as a person, and he really liked the no-pressure aspect of no girls around.
February 4, 200818 yr In all seriousness, both my son and my daughter LOVED single sex schools. My daughter didn't have to worry about makeup, etc. She also felt like she could be more open in how she asked for help, or responded in class, because she didn't have to worry about a boy thinking she was stupid. She, more than my son, really became a less shy, and much more confident person as a result. My son mentions to this day that it kept a lot of the "he-man" drama out of school, when boys are trying to outdo one another for the girls' attention. He was always pretty confident as a person, and he really liked the no-pressure aspect of no girls around. There are people that will try and tell you that your children didn't really experience that. I am all for single-sex schools and your son is right on. So much of the boys' discipline issues is trying to save face for the pretty little thing watching what they are doing.
February 4, 200818 yr There are people that will try and tell you that your children didn't really experience that. I am all for single-sex schools and your son is right on. So much of the boys' discipline issues is trying to save face for the pretty little thing watching what they are doing. How funny that someone would tell me that! :lol: Actually, since I went to an All-Girls school, I experienced it myself, and I can tell the skeptics a thing or two! It was actually a very liberating experience. I was a very shy, awkward youngster. I literally had no friends through 8th grade. But I became a totally different person in high school. OK...maybe I still have no friends, but I'm not miserable anymore! :lol:
February 4, 200818 yr I have only one problem with Title IX. If, for example, a baseball team conducts fundraisers to improve their facilities, travel for spring preseason, or buy better equipment, then the same must be provided for the softball team even if they are not willing to do the necessary fundraising to achieve it. Actually happened at Henry Clay several years ago.
February 4, 200818 yr How funny that someone would tell me that! :lol: Actually, since I went to an All-Girls school, I experienced it myself, and I can tell the skeptics a thing or two! It was actually a very liberating experience. I was a very shy, awkward youngster. I literally had no friends through 8th grade. But I became a totally different person in high school. OK...maybe I still have no friends, but I'm not miserable anymore! :lol: PepRock had a similar experience in grade school. When I was in 8th grade I was eagerly awaiting leaving my school so I could go to Trinity where I wouldn't have to deal with the pettiness and irrational behavior of young girls. Of course boys aren't themost logical individuals at that age.
February 4, 200818 yr Actually happened at Henry Clay several years ago. I knew there was quite a controversy in one of the Lexington schools a short time ago. I couldn't recall which one or the specifics.
February 4, 200818 yr Boone County was forced to update their softball fields via lawsuit to the same level of the baseball fields.
February 4, 200818 yr I was thinking that the posting was relating to some type of fundraising activity that boys did on their own outside of school - some type of product sales, or car wash, or walkathon, or whatever - and that this money would then have to be split with the girls team, even though they chose not to participate, or at least not participate to the same degree. That is correct. I support equal school funding of girl's athletics. Here's where I feel it really goes wrong. Let's say, for example, a baseball team raises money to install lights on their field. Softball team makes no effort. School board rules the baseball team can't have lights unless the softball field is lit also. Since the board is not about to provide money for the lights, the softball team is apathetic and does not attempt to raise money, then the only solution is... no one gets lights. Therefore, the girls are no better off, just equal.
February 4, 200818 yr That is correct. I support equal school funding of girl's athletics. Here's where I feel it really goes wrong. Let's say, for example, a baseball team raises money to install lights on their field. Softball team makes no effort. School board rules the baseball team can't have lights unless the softball field is lit also. Since the board is not about to provide money for the lights, the softball team is apathetic and does not attempt to raise money, then the only solution is... no one gets lights. Therefore, the girls are no better off, just equal. Democratic process. Elect new board members.:thumb:
February 4, 200818 yr Boone County was forced to update their softball fields via lawsuit to the same level of the baseball fields. Was this to correct inequities caused by the school board?
February 4, 200818 yr Democratic process. Elect new board members.:thumb: Or get NKY to send more money!!!
February 4, 200818 yr Was this to correct inequities caused by the school board? Not sure how the inequities came about. I am sure you can do a search for an article on it. http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2000/09/13/loc_title_ix_lawsuit.html Notice the sidenote in this article. NKU women's golf team came as a result of Title IX.
February 4, 200818 yr http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2001/05/19/loc_boone_co_title_ix.html The Boone County High School sophomore was even happier a nearly 14-month battle over compliance with federal Title IX gender-equity laws in her school's female athletic programs is nearly finished. If the settlement is approved, the district will build an on-campus facility for soccer and softball. Superintendent Bryan Blavatt said negotiations are under way for a 3-acre site northwest of the school's football field. But compliance did not come easy. Last year, the state had to threaten to pull eligibility from any school that did not return its fully completed Title IX compliance forms. That meant football games were threatened as the playoffs approached. Two plaintiffs, Ed Lawrence and Kim Egan, have heard the case has had a big impact. They say when they traveled with the softball team to tournaments in Bowling Green and Russell, opponents thanked them and said the suit caused other school boards to build new facilities. Part of the complaint stemmed from the fact that Boone County's softball team played its home games at Collins Elementary School in Florence, some 2 miles off campus, while the Rebel baseball team played on campus. “Nothing was ever going to be taken away from the boys,” Ms. Egan said. “We just wanted to elevate the girls.”
February 4, 200818 yr The Boone County situation came about because the girls softball team was upset they did not have a field located on the school grounds. They used a field behind a nearby elementary school. Eventually the school had to buy some very expensive property from a neighboring business and built the girls a very nice softball field.
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