Feminists

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Even though this was several years after Title IX was passed, the girls' field hockey team had to practice on an uneven patch of gravel on the back side of the school, half the size of a reg field, with no grass, goals, lines, anything. The boys' soccer team got to use both practice fields, because they were the boys and more important. We were actually told this by the principal. This was a public school middle school. The school was breaking Federal law, but we didn't know that. We just excepted it, even though it wasn't fair and it made us angry.

One girl's uncle, however, DID know the principal was breaking Title IX, and raised Holy Hell about it after the principal basically tossed him out of his office. He called the paper, went to the school board, and talked about it to everyone. When we all realized we had a LEGAL AND MORAL RIGHT to have the same rights as the boys, we got our parents involved, too, and we were given one of the practice fields.

The boys' coach, one of our teachers, thought this wasn't fair, and said so to the boys, which caused harassment of us in class and at practice. The teacher was ultimately fired. But not the principal, of course.

I don;t want to give a name for privacy purposes, but one of the girls who was a grade under me was one two US Women's Olympic field hockey teams. The truth.