help!

[mtsu82]

if you have 13 people signed up and eligible for a soccer team..should u still be aloud to have a team.cuz our athletic director won't let our girls have a team!!

[LCNO9]

SURE... sounds like a plan to me.

[trackman]

Here's another plan. If your school has a football team or boys' soccer team, have one of your parents contact an attorney and ask that attorney to send a letter referring to compliance with Title IX.

That should do it. Then you will definitely have no support from the school administration, but you will get a team.

[chxian]

Trackman is correct but it's not as easy as it may appear on the surface.

 

Please note that all that is required under Title IX is that an institution be in compliance with one part of the following tests. No one part of the test is the predominant or "true" measure of compliance. The three parts of the test are:

 

Part One: Substantial Proportionality. This part of the test is satisfied when participation opportunities for men and women are "substantially proportionate" to their respective undergraduate enrollments.

 

Part Two: History and Continuing Practice. This part of the test is satisfied when an institution has a history and continuing practice of program expansion that is responsive to the developing interests and abilities of the underrepresented sex (typically female).

 

Part Three: Effectively Accommodating Interests and Abilities. This part of the test is satisfied when an institution is meeting the interests and abilities of its female students even where there are disproportionately fewer females than males participating in sports.