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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]THere was a bus providing transportation to the WJ players back to their home school? Do buses usually provide transportation to games for football players?

Signed - mom to a field hockey player who is expected to car-pool to take kids to away field hockey games. Or the kids drive themselves.[/quote]

Yes. You are 100% right.  This is a title IX issue- girls and boys have to be treated equally in sports at school , I.e. equally resourced.  When boys have bus transportation and girls do not, that is inequitable.  Write an email to the Montgomery County Title IX coordinator and ask him why you are driving your field hockey player to away games but boy’s football is transported by bus.  Ask how much is allotted for transportation of female athletes to away games versus male athletes.[/quote]

BTDT - MCPS will say that the field hockey coach needs to request a bus. If the coach isn’t asking for a bus, MCPS isn’t denying a bus.

It’s strange though that the coaches for female sports or coed teams are not asking for buses like the male teams do.  All teams should have transportation provided.  Coaches should speak up and ask. If the buses are denied, file a Title IX complaint with the US Department of Education Office of Civil Rights. Get an answer from your daughter’s coach via email as to why her team doesn’t have a bus. [/quote]

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