Bush and Title IX
Somehow I missed this when it first hit the news... from the savetitleix website:"Without any notice or public input, the Department of Education recently issued a new Title IX policy under the guise of a "Clarification" that threatens to reverse the decades of progress women and girls have made in sports. Schools can now claim they are providing women and girls with equal opportunities to play sports based only on results from an e-mail survey of female students' interests in sports.
Under this new policy, all a school has to do to show they are providing their female students with equal opportunities to play sports is to send each female student an email survey asking whether she has the interest and ability to play additional sports. If for any reason the student does not reply, the school may interpret this as lack of interest. Given the notoriously low response rates to surveys in general and this era of excessive e-mail spam, the Department's new policy undermines the law and its intent to provide more opportunities for women and girls.
Before this policy "clarification," schools had to make a serious effort to gauge interest, including by talking to coaches and students and surveying women's sports offered by high schools or other colleges in the region. Schools also had to examine whether their lack of recruitment effort dampened real interest in sports opportunities by potential female athletes. Now schools can simply say they've met their obligation by sending students mass emails."
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Have I mentioned that Bush is a pig?
posted by Dave @ 6:48 PM
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