LADUE, Mo. — A St. Louis mother has filed a federal lawsuit, claiming that a soccer coach's decision to cut her son from the junior varsity team was age discrimination.
KTVI reports if a junior Ladue High School student does not make the varsity team, the boy cannot play again on the junior varsity team. This is in an attempt to allow lower grade students a chance to develop their skills and later try out for varsity.
The mother of a junior who did not make the cut, identified only as John Doe, said this is unfair and believes her son is good enough to play on the junior varsity team again.
According to the Riverfront Times, the boy's mom alleged that this practice violates age discrimination laws and Title IX, a civil rights law attempting to guarantee equal access in public education regardless of gender, because the policy is not in place for younger boys or female athletes.
The suit claims the soccer coach told the boy's mom that he was "right on the bubble" of making the team, but that there were too many kids who had a better soccer skill and soccer IQ for him to make the team. The coach also wasn't willing to put the boy on junior varsity again,
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6 comments:
typical millennial parent! who's mommy gonna sue when he can't get a job and move out of her basement?
I thought that was the rule when I was in high school in the late 70's. If you were a junior and didn't make the Varsity team it was Tough Titty and you didn't make JV either. I thought that was nationwide policy, but Parkside has been putting juniors on the JV team for some reason. I don't think it's fair to the Freshman and Sophomores when they have to compete with an upperclassman.
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Same when I went to school. 9th and 10th grades played JV and 11th and 12th played Varsity. You did have a few 9th and 10th grade players move up to the Varsity team if they were really good but never did an 11th or 12th play VJ.
That will certainly endear her little boy to teammates and classmates in school and on the field.
Her lawyer should be sanctioned for filing a frivolous suit. If successful, her follow-up will be to demand a certain number of playing minutes.
Ridiculous, even though Missouri has been a rabid soccer area for at least 50 years.
Tough Titty doesn't cut it here in 2018. Nope, its ALL about the benjamins!
Some people just plain outright have a problem with rules and laws. They don't mean a thing when it comes to them. They think it's all about them and /or their dumb brats.
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