A school district in Austin, Texas has opened up a girl’s only science magnet school. The rational for this school is that girls need to be given extra encouragement to go into science related fields and that they need a school where they can study without having to worry about teenage boys being, well…, boys.
While I certainly agree that dealing with hormonally challenged teenage boys can be a problem for girls during high school, this means that my soon to be high school aged son, who has already been identified as a GT kid in multiple subjects including math and science, will have one less GT science program opportunity to choose from simply because he was born with a Y chromosome.
Frankly, I believe this to be blatant gender based discrimination, especially since this school is funded by my tax dollars?
What do y’all think?
Does my son have grounds for a lawsuit against the school district for not allowing him to attend this school based solely on his gender?
2007-01-18
08:40:55
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