I must admit that I am fed up and tired of reading about how these schools continue to disrespect students and parents. Also, to the same extent, how women and girls are bullied and abused in competitive athletics. Where are the women who burned their bras in the sixties?
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Did you not teach your children how to resist bullying?
I have a simple and effective solution: Parents, keep your student home!
No students, no money. You should know that October 1st, at least in New Hampshire, is the day state and federal aid is set based on attendance on that day. If you don’t get what you want from your district, simply tell them no students in school on October 1st. This will impact everything at the school district. Give them a test run on a specific day. See what response you get. The second and third time it’s done, the school will get the message.
As far as women’s sports, same thing. There is no competition or abuse of women and girls if they don’t compete. I suggest the female athletes appear at the event, take their starting position and then sit down, or better yet, take a knee!
Let the event coordinators and commentators try and figure out what do and what to say. Let them explain at a nationally sponsored event what is going on. Let them explain to the sponsors why there is no competition and no audience!
Both of these things are driven by money.
Eliminate the participants (students in one case and athletes in the other), and it all comes crashing down.
If participants simply say they are not going to participate, the abuse ends.
I’m sure the organizations impacted would declare themselves victims, but everybody else would know their abuse has just ended.
It’s time to bring this abuse to a screeching halt.
