Proportionality test - Revision history

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Aschlafly: allegedly for the purpose of complying with Title IX (in fact, Title IX was never intended to cause this)

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allegedly for the purpose of complying with Title IX (in fact, Title IX was never intended to cause this)

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Aschlafly: This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymastics and other sports that have relatively small teams

2012-07-02T00:02:34Z

This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymastics and other sports that have relatively small teams

Aschlafly at 15:50, July 1, 2012

2012-07-01T15:50:32Z

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−	The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter\|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton\|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton Administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."~~[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]~~</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]] allegedly for the purpose of complying with [[Title IX]] (in fact, Title IX was never intended to cause this).	+	The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter\|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton\|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton Administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]] allegedly for the purpose of complying with [[Title IX]] (in fact, Title IX was never intended to cause this).

	'''''This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymnastics and other sports that have relatively small squads'''''. The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:		'''''This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymnastics and other sports that have relatively small squads'''''. The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:

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-The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]] allegedly for the purpose of complying with [[Title IX]] (in fact, Title IX was never intended to cause this).
+The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton Administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]] allegedly for the purpose of complying with [[Title IX]] (in fact, Title IX was never intended to cause this).
 '''''This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymnastics and other sports that have relatively small squads'''''.  The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:
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 ==See also==
 * [[Liberal Denial]]
+* [https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-laws/sex-discrimination/exemptions-from-title-ix Education Department's Exemptions from Title IX]
 [[Category:United States Law]]

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	In a typical situation, a school has limited budget resources for sports programs. If budgetary constraints require a school to cut sports teams and prevent expanded sports for girls, then prongs (2) and (3) of the test cannot be satisfied. '''''In these common cases the school must meet the quota requirement of (1), thereby causing it to eliminate many more boy team positions than girl team positions in order to make the gender of the team members reflect the student body'''''. [[James Madison University]] has done precisely that, cutting far more boys teams than girls teams in order to meet Title IX's requirement for access for both boys and girls.		In a typical situation, a school has limited budget resources for sports programs. If budgetary constraints require a school to cut sports teams and prevent expanded sports for girls, then prongs (2) and (3) of the test cannot be satisfied. '''''In these common cases the school must meet the quota requirement of (1), thereby causing it to eliminate many more boy team positions than girl team positions in order to make the gender of the team members reflect the student body'''''. [[James Madison University]] has done precisely that, cutting far more boys teams than girls teams in order to meet Title IX's requirement for access for both boys and girls.
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		+	The problem with prong (3) is that it requires an expensive survey of female students to measure their interest in participating on teams. When schools try to demonstrate Title IX compliance using a prong (3) survey, feminists attack the survey methodology. Also, just because a woman responds on a survey that she would be interested in playing a particular sport does not guarantee that if the school undertakes the expense of hiring a coach, enough students will sign up for a varsity team in that sport.

	Title IX applies to all levels of federally-supported schools, and feminists seek to apply the proportionality test fully to high schools.<ref>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTgxOTlmZmMzYTgwMWZkZWY1NDA1YjkxZWE5MTU0Yjc=</ref>		Title IX applies to all levels of federally-supported schools, and feminists seek to apply the proportionality test fully to high schools.<ref>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTgxOTlmZmMzYTgwMWZkZWY1NDA1YjkxZWE5MTU0Yjc=</ref>

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-The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]] for the purpose of complying with [[Title IX]].
+The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]] allegedly for the purpose of complying with [[Title IX]] (in fact, Title IX was never intended to cause this).
 '''''This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymnastics and other sports that have relatively small squads'''''.  The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:
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 #are satisfying the entire interest of girls to participate in sports.
-In a typical situation, a school has limited budget resources for sports programs.  If budgetary constraints require a school to cut sports teams and prevent expanded sports for girls prongs (2) and (3) of the test cannot be satisfied.  '''''In these common cases the school must meet the quota requirement of (1), thereby causing it to eliminate many more boy team positions than girl team positions in order to make the gender of the team members reflect the student body'''''.  [[James Madison University]] recently did precisely that, cutting far more boys teams than girls teams in order to meet Title IX's requirement for access for both boys and girls.
+In a typical situation, a school has limited budget resources for sports programs.  If budgetary constraints require a school to cut sports teams and prevent expanded sports for girls, then prongs (2) and (3) of the test cannot be satisfied.  '''''In these common cases the school must meet the quota requirement of (1), thereby causing it to eliminate many more boy team positions than girl team positions in order to make the gender of the team members reflect the student body'''''.  [[James Madison University]] has done precisely that, cutting far more boys teams than girls teams in order to meet Title IX's requirement for access for both boys and girls.
 Title IX applies to all levels of federally-supported schools, and feminists seek to apply the proportionality test fully to high schools.<ref>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTgxOTlmZmMzYTgwMWZkZWY1NDA1YjkxZWE5MTU0Yjc=</ref>

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 Title IX applies to all levels of federally-supported schools, and feminists seek to apply the proportionality test fully to high schools.<ref>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTgxOTlmZmMzYTgwMWZkZWY1NDA1YjkxZWE5MTU0Yjc=</ref>
-Proportionality tests can be said to be contrary to the principles of a [[meritocracy]], as they encourage promotion to sports teams based on gender, not ability.  The result is a decline in quality since the best athletes in certain are not given the platform to excel because player slots have been created for the opposite gender.
+Proportionality tests can be said to be contrary to the principles of a [[meritocracy]], as they encourage promotion to sports teams based on gender, not ability.  The result is a decline in quality since the best athletes in certain sports are not given the platform to excel because player slots have been created for the opposite gender.
 Only two colleges do not have to comply with Title IX, because they do not take ''any'' federal funding:  [[Grove City College]] and [[Hillsdale College]].

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 In a typical situation, a school needs to cut sports teams for budgetary reasons and cannot provide additional sports for girls, whereby prongs (2) and (3) of the test cannot be satisfied.  '''''In these common cases the school must meet the quota requirement of (1), thereby causing it to eliminate many more boys teams than girls teams in order to make the proportional representation'''''.  [[James Madison University]] recently did precisely that, cutting far more boys teams than girls teams in order to meet Title IX's requirement for access for both boys and girls.
-Many seek to apply the proportionality test fully to high schools. <ref>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTgxOTlmZmMzYTgwMWZkZWY1NDA1YjkxZWE5MTU0Yjc=
+Feminists seek to apply the proportionality test fully to high schools.<ref>http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NTgxOTlmZmMzYTgwMWZkZWY1NDA1YjkxZWE5MTU0Yjc=</ref>
 Proportionality tests can be said to be contrary to the principles of a [[meritocracy]], as they encourage promotion to sports teams based on gender, not ability.  The result is a decline in quality since the best athletes are not given the platform to excel.

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 The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]].
-'''''This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymastics and other sports that have relatively small teams'''''.  The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:
+'''''This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymnastics and other sports that have relatively small squads'''''.  The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:
 #'''''have the same proportion of girls in sports as enrolled in the school''''',

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−	The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter\|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton\|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]]. The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:	+	The '''proportionality''' test is a [[feminist]]-supported three-part test first adopted under [[Title IX]] by the [[Jimmy Carter\|Carter]] Administration and then expanded by the [[Bill Clinton\|Clinton]] Administration,<ref>"[I]n 1996, the Education Department issued a 'clarification.' In it, Clinton-administration Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Norma Cantu proposed steps that might be taken to demonstrate compliance with these tests, but left it up to the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights to determine whether those measures were adequate. She designated test one -- the proportionality test -- as a 'safe harbor,' where school administrators had to find shelter if they wanted to be sure they were protected from subjectively derived judgments of noncompliance."[http://shinbone.home.att.net/titleix.2.htm]</ref> which imposes a mindless gender quota on school [[sports]].
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		+	'''''This test has resulted in the elimination of hundreds of men's wrestling and baseball teams, and even some women's teams in gymastics and other sports that have relatively small teams'''''. The test consists of counting the number of male and female participants on the school sports teams, and holds that schools are in compliance with Title IX only if they:

	#'''''have the same proportion of girls in sports as enrolled in the school''''',		#'''''have the same proportion of girls in sports as enrolled in the school''''',