Second Grade Boys Stoddert Team Forming in Palisades/Spring Valley

[Anonymous]

A new second grade, all-boys Stoddert soccer team in the Palisades is seeking additional players. Commitment involves games on Saturdays and possibly a weekly afternoon practice. If your child is interested in joining, please email [e-mail].

[Anonymous]

Stoddert doesn't have an all-boys league.

[Anonymous]

Now it does

[Anonymous]

No, it really doesn't. It has a coed league and a girls league. (And boys who don't want to play with girls are invited to reexamine their prejudices.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, it really doesn't. It has a coed league and a girls league. (And boys who don't want to play with girls are invited to reexamine their prejudices.)

But the girls who do not want to play with the boys...they do not need to re-examine their prejudices? They get their own team? LOL you are so blinded to your sexist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it really doesn't. It has a coed league and a girls league. (And boys who don't want to play with girls are invited to reexamine their prejudices.)

But the girls who do not want to play with the boys...they do not need to re-examine their prejudices? They get their own team? LOL you are so blinded to your sexist.

We like having girls on our Stoddert Coed rec team. And we've been the best in the league for years. It's about inclusion and kids who like playing together and support one another. Also, there are a few really competitive girls out there. I hope your year works like ours, because if so you'll be wishing you had a girl or two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it really doesn't. It has a coed league and a girls league. (And boys who don't want to play with girls are invited to reexamine their prejudices.)

But the girls who do not want to play with the boys...they do not need to re-examine their prejudices? They get their own team? LOL you are so blinded to your sexist.

We like having girls on our Stoddert Coed rec team. And we've been the best in the league for years. It's about inclusion and kids who like playing together and support one another. Also, there are a few really competitive girls out there. I hope your year works like ours, because if so you'll be wishing you had a girl or two.

So the girls can have an all girls team but the boys can not because it’s sexist? You think before you speak or post?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, it really doesn't. It has a coed league and a girls league. (And boys who don't want to play with girls are invited to reexamine their prejudices.)

But the girls who do not want to play with the boys...they do not need to re-examine their prejudices? They get their own team? LOL you are so blinded to your sexist.

We like having girls on our Stoddert Coed rec team. And we've been the best in the league for years. It's about inclusion and kids who like playing together and support one another. Also, there are a few really competitive girls out there. I hope your year works like ours, because if so you'll be wishing you had a girl or two.

So the girls can have an all girls team but the boys can not because it’s sexist? You think before you speak or post?

The coed league basically is a boys league as far as skills, temperament, physicality go--it just can't exclude girls. The purpose of the girls league is to create space to play for girls who can't (or would rather not have to) handle the physicality or attitude of a boys ("coed") league. That's a legitimate, positive purpose. The purpose of creating a boys league, OTOT, would be purely to exclude girls--in particular, to exclude those girls who rather would play in a more physical "coed league" (in quotation marks because there's no way girls make up even a quarter of the league by 3rd grade). And yes, that's sexist.