Reply #32: Several weeks ago my daughter was looking at my junior high yr. book

[Pattib]

she was making her wisecracks about the various bad haircuts and clothes. She flipped to the sports section and said, "where are all the girls sports teams?" I pointed to the bleachers and said, "right there"! That was our job, our team. We got to sit in the bleachers and cheer on the men's teams. Soccer, basketball, wrestling, baseball and track.

Title 9 had been passed the previous year but like many schools, mine did not think it was binding so nothing was done. My senior year of high school we did have girl's track and the obligatory cheerleading squad. In gym class the girls just hung out in the bleachers talking. The boys had access to the gymnasium. On nice days we went outside and played kick-ball. Whoo-Hoo! I am so against changing title 9. I'm sorry if that offends you but for decades girls were not allowed access to sports, period.