ACLU claiming city parks dept favors boys over girls

[proud2BlibKansan]

ACLU, Softball Coach Fighting KCMO Over Access to Fields

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Girls softball coach Matt Scanlon says that the Kansas City Missouri Parks and Recreation Department has unfairly benched his team, and now he and the American Civil Liberty Union are fighting back over what they claim is unequal treatment that favors boys over girls.

According to a complaint filed on Thursday with the Missouri Human Rights Commission, the ACLU claims that girls’ softball teams are being shut out from playing on public fields in Kansas City.

The ACLU alleges that the Parks and Recreation Department discriminates against girls by contracting with a boy’s baseball club for exclusive use of athletic fields in the Brookside and Waldo neighborhoods.

In its complaint, the ACLU also alleges that the manager of four girl’s softball teams in south Kansas City applied for permits to play on city fields, but was told that he, “could not have the permits…because of a long-standing contract between the city and the baseball club.”

more . . .http://fox4kc.com/2012/07/13/aclu-softball-coach-fighting-kcmo-over-access-to-fields/

[Fawke Em]

1. Your headline is backwards...

Seems to me the complaint is that the parks department is favoring boys over girls... unless I'm reading to story wrong.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Oops sorry bout that

[bluestateguy]

2. The ACLU should be focusing all of their energies on voter ID laws right now

Stuff like this can be handled by other organizations.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. They are doing that too

They had training here just a few weeks ago.

[MineralMan]

3. You got the title wrong.

It's just the opposite. The parks department favors the boys' teams, not the girls' teams.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Fixed

Thanks.

[exboyfil]

4. Separate but equal

[surrealAmerican]

8. Even when they're not sexist ...

... (which this appears to be) exclusive contracts for the use of public parks are inherently discriminatory.