A question for the teachers out there....

[Haskell_Hunter]

Have you the pleasure of taking Title IX training?  I just lost 90 minutes of my life that I'm never getting back.

 

To be fair there is some important stuff in there, but there's also stuff that doesn't need to be there.

 

For those of you who are interested in what Title IX is, this is a good article to start with (there are other links in the article which are good--or bad--reads on the subject):  http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/22/the-campus-rape-lawsuit-that-could-destr

 

Title IX is a one-sentence piece of law that prohibits sexual discrimination in education.  This is a good thing.  However, under the Obama Overreach Administration, it's evolved into a giant ball of things that colleges have to do or else they'll lose federal funding.  It's not law, only Congress can create law, but the Obama Overreach Administration did their thing with it anyway.

 

[BenedictGomez]

Another thing Title IX did was it killed sports at small institutions and forever ensured that the giant schools will be the NCAA sports powerhouses.   

 

Sure, the small schools have teams, but Title IX made it too financially difficult for those small colleges and universities to typically compete with the larger schools.   Small schools cant afford to willy-nilly hand out things like female crew and softball full scholarships so that they can hand out an equal number of male football and baseball full scholarships, even though everyone knows that it's the male sports that brings in the $$$$$ to fund BOTH the male and female programs on a go forward basis.

Edited January 16, 2017 by BenedictGomez

[Rusty]

 

 

[stratocaster]

Have you the pleasure of taking Title IX training?  I just lost 90 minutes of my life that I'm never getting back.

 

To be fair there is some important stuff in there, but there's also stuff that doesn't need to be there.

 

For those of you who are interested in what Title IX is, this is a good article to start with (there are other links in the article which are good--or bad--reads on the subject):  http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/22/the-campus-rape-lawsuit-that-could-destr

 

Title IX is a one-sentence piece of law that prohibits sexual discrimination in education.  This is a good thing.  However, under the Obama Overreach Administration, it's evolved into a giant ball of things that colleges have to do or else they'll lose federal funding.  It's not law, only Congress can create law, but the Obama Overreach Administration did their thing with it anyway.

Why did you have to take it?  Are you an educator or somehow involved in education?

 

 I notice how you referenced federal funding.  Isn't it interesting that under Obama, he decided what the colleges have to do in order not to lose it and it's not law as you say.  However, under federal law which the AG is supposed to vigorously  defend and prosecute he directed them to not prosecute and allows flagrant breaking of the law as long as it fits his agenda.  

[kevinh9189]

I'm a middle school teacher with a masters in teaching. I studied title IX extensively in college. I won't get into details but basically it is a good hearted law, created at a time when it was necessary to stop discrimination. Since then like every other law that has been on the books it has had issues present themselves but mostly in isolated cases. As a whole it was successful. Universal healthcare is a perfect example. A great idea!! Let's face it who doesn't deserve to have health insurance and access to affordable medical care. The problem is in the logistics, how do we do it. While Obamacare must likely will go down as a failure, title IX will go down as a success besides some isolated cases.

 

 

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[Haskell_Hunter]

Why did you have to take it?  Are you an educator or somehow involved in education?

 

 

I am an adjunct at a college in NYC, so I had to take mandatory training on it.

 

 

I'm a middle school teacher with a masters in teaching. I studied title IX extensively in college. I won't get into details but basically it is a good hearted law, created at a time when it was necessary to stop discrimination. Since then like every other law that has been on the books it has had issues present themselves but mostly in isolated cases. As a whole it was successful. Universal healthcare is a perfect example. A great idea!! Let's face it who doesn't deserve to have health insurance and access to affordable medical care. The problem is in the logistics, how do we do it. While Obamacare must likely will go down as a failure, title IX will go down as a success besides some isolated cases.

 

 

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The problem I have with Title IX is that it's one sentence, that's it.  However, it's been distorted into covering way more than it should.  Additionally, colleges are not the place to hold tribunals, that's what legal courts are for.  It replaces due process, which is unfair.

 

The single sentence that is Title IX makes sense.  What the Obama administration did to it does not.

[BCsaw]

I'm a middle school teacher with a masters in teaching. I studied title IX extensively in college. I won't get into details but basically it is a good hearted law, created at a time when it was necessary to stop discrimination. Since then like every other law that has been on the books it has had issues present themselves but mostly in isolated cases. As a whole it was successful. Universal healthcare is a perfect example. A great idea!! Let's face it who doesn't deserve to have health insurance and access to affordable medical care. The problem is in the logistics, how do we do it. While Obamacare must likely will go down as a failure, title IX will go down as a success besides some isolated cases.

 

 

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Who's paying for the Universal healthcare? Where's the money?

[Batsto]

Obama had a major philisophical goal......reshape the US in his progressive liberal image and its going to be hard to kill. He is a true latent socialist revolutionary. If Trump improves the economy and restores order in Washington DC things will turn around, but it going to very difficult.

Edited January 16, 2017 by Batsto

[kevinh9189]

Who's paying for the Universal healthcare? Where's the money?

That's why I said the principle of the idea is great, not that it would work lol

 

 

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[stratocaster]

I'm a middle school teacher with a masters in teaching. I studied title IX extensively in college. I won't get into details but basically it is a good hearted law, created at a time when it was necessary to stop discrimination. Since then like every other law that has been on the books it has had issues present themselves but mostly in isolated cases. As a whole it was successful. Universal healthcare is a perfect example. A great idea!! Let's face it who doesn't deserve to have health insurance and access to affordable medical care. The problem is in the logistics, how do we do it. While Obamacare must likely will go down as a failure, title IX will go down as a success besides some isolated cases.

 

 

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I guess my problem begins with  your statement of it being a "good hearted law".  I don't understand WTF that means because it makes no logical sense.  The "details" you won't get into are the specifics about the 3 prong rule and how it unfairly targets other programs. If you really want to make things equal then eliminate sports scholarships entirely and base it totally on academics.  But that won't happen because all the liberals will start crying that it's discriminatory to make all kids compete academically and only give scholarships to the smartest kids.  What would we do with the all big dumb football players, most of whom can't even keep up the minimum GPA?  They would actually have to apply themselves and learn.  Oh, isn't that what you go to a university for in the first place? To get an education so you can earn an income and support yourself and not live off the rest of society.

 

As usual, a law is passed not with the intention of eliminating discrimination but with guaranteeing liberal outcomes. It's the same with the acceptance rates to science and engineering high schools, they all have to take the same tests but not enough girls were getting in so put some slots aside just for the girls instead of expanding the program and letting them compete with the boys. Same BS different day.  As for the healthcare argument it's much more complicated than your simple "affordable medical care" statement.  Let's start with tort reform. Nope, can't do that because driving down costs puts less money in the lawyers pockets and the democrats won't do that to themselves as it will take away part of their funding.  

As to who doesn't deserve health insurance. Who doesn't deserve a house, a car, clothes, tv, cell phone, spending money, beer....same liberal arguments, you get something without putting skin in the game is your mindset.

I say we make it really fair and force women to register with selective service along with men at age 18.  We need to make it fair don't we?  Also, make 1/2 the platoons, recon patrols, squadrons and SEAL units women.  Put them in the HUMVEES and we'll drive around getting into firefights with ISIS and hit some IED's along the way because they deserve to have the same experience as us boys do.  Wouldn't want to discriminate would we?