I’m assuming that Our Lady of
Sorrow is a catholic school and due to its religious beliefs forfeited their
team’s baseball champion Their belief that girls should not be placed on the
same field as boys to avoid “the difficulty of maintaining proper boundaries”
is a ridiculous reason. Like the article comments, I think Our Lady of Sorrow
needs to catch up to modern times. What kind of message and prejudice are they
teaching to their students? I am imaging the students going home and telling
their parents that the school made them forfeit the CHAMPIONSHIP simply because
the other team had a female on their roster. I bet that if it was up to the
players they would want to play and compete for a championship and the fact
that there was a female on the other team would not matter in the slightest. On
the reverse side, I am really glad Meza Prep is not focusing on Our Lady of Sorrow's decision
but rather celebrating their championship. I think it was very a very stand-up
thing for the head coach to say “ I don’t necessary agree with their view but I
accept their decision and am happy to celebrate the victory.” Because really
what could the coach from Meza Prep do about this but to accept Our Lady of
Sorrow’s religious views, move to a different league and try to defend their
championship.
Its
my belief that religion and politics should be left completely out of sports,
especially with sports involving children. The point of sports is to have fun,
learn to work as a team and grow as a person together. Creating biases of which
sex should be allowed to compete in which sport is a horrible view to cultivate,
especially to middle school students.
Also, what kind of name is Our Lady of Sorrow? Kind of dark no? Not the point of the article but it came to mind.
-Sean Boyd
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