Thursday, December 18, 2008

Girl banned from playing with the boys.

In Florida, Aliyah Farley, 13, was asked by the junior varsity basketball coach of the Westside Christian School to join the school's team. He saw her speed and moves on the court in gym class, and quickly recognized her potential to be an asset to the school's team. As a starting guard in her first game, Aliyah helped her team to defeat the other school. The problem here is that Aliyah has been voted off the team by 8 out of 11 board members. The team is an all boys team. There is nothing in the rules stating that a girl cannot play on the team, and in addition, there is no girls team for her to join if she is kicked off. There are only 112 students in the school, and there is not enough interest by the girls to form an all girls team. Many people within the school and outside of the school want her to be able to continue to play, but some feel that it will allow future co-ed incidents, as there are so few teams because of not enough interest. One member thinks that a boy will want to join the girls volleyball team next year, as there is no boys team. What do you think should happen?

Here is the link to an article on it:
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100020423&docId=l:895461144&start=16

Codi Conley

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