Arizona Republic: “A women’s rights group says the Deer Valley Unified School District does not provide equal opportunities for girls to play high-school sports. The National Women’s Law Center filed a complaint Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Education, seeking an investigation.”
The slow march toward the 24/7 nanny state continues as government takes away our freedom one right at a time. Los Angeles Times: “The city’s board of supervisors votes to forbid restaurants from giving away toys with meals that have high levels of calories, sugar and fat. San Francisco’s board of supervisors has voted . . . to ban most of McDonald’s Happy Meals . . . . The measure will make San Francisco the first major city in the country to forbid restaurants from offering a free toy with meals that contain more than set levels of calories, sugar and fat.”
More harm caused by Title IX – hundreds of high school soccer players no longer able to play soccer because of a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union on behalf of three girl players. Girls played soccer in the spring and boys played in the fall. The three plaintiffs said that requiring girls high school soccer in the spring discriminated against girls because it harmed their chances of playing college soccer. The reason the boys and girls did not play at the same time is because the schools did not have enough soccer fields for the sexes to play at the same time. The three girls won and now boys and girls must play soccer in the fall. The result is fewer soccer players. See the story in Saving Sports that states:
“boys teams forfeited 84 soccer matches and girls squads forfeited 82 matches a year ago, and 300 fewer girls played soccer after the realignment took effect last fall. Nearly a month into the 2010 season, Sprance has counted 59 girls forfeits and 45 for boys. Two boys programs and two girls programs have already been dropped, and Sprance estimated that more than 500 girls will have stopped playing soccer as a result of the season switch.”
This is not a joke. An idiot who is also a prosecutor who has convicted all violent criminals in Wayne County, Michigan, and who seeks more preps to send up the river is asking for a law that would make it a crime for parents to miss their parent teacher conference. How about a law that jails the educators responsible for the K-12 school system that is one of the worst in the nation? Next on the agenda – ten years of hard labor for parents who fail to make their kids brush their teeth.
USA Today: “Starting with the grainy images first broadcast by Kamau and other pioneer citizen watchdogs — notably the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, shot by a nearby resident— the public surveillance of cops has exploded to potentially include anyone with a cellphone. The videos are so ubiquitous that analysts and police debate whether they are serving the public interest — or undermining public trust in law enforcement and even putting officers’ lives in jeopardy