Deciding one's own destiny

Doc Holliday · 03-17-2006, 02:29 AM

Among other athletic department matters covered by Title IX is equal access for boys and girls to a school's training staff and weight rooms. Scheduling is often a major issue; schools are not permitted to have either the boys' or girls' teams use all the desirable evening or weekend times for games or the most popular after-school times for practice. Gymnasiums must be shared. The mode of transportation to games or practices must be fundamentally equivalent.

Coaching salaries also must be comparable. The schools must make an effort to publicize girls teams the way they publicize boys teams. Title IX even covers the cheerleaders, who are not supposed to cheer more often for boys teams than for girls teams.

this is a quote from the NewYork Times
By BILL PENNINGTON

Published: June 29, 2004