A 12-year-old girl has been kicked off her Christian school’s football team over the fear she might arouse “impure thoughts” among her male teammates.
Maddy Paige of Jackson, Ga., was the starting left defensive tackle as a sixth-grader for Strong Rock Christian School, a private academy in Locust Grove, Ga.
But she was recently informed by the private school’s CEO that she was not welcome to play as a seventh-grader.
“It’s like taking my dream and throwing it in the trash,” Maddy told WXIA-TV in Atlanta.
As far as a reason, Maddy’s mother, Cassy Blythe, told the station: “In the meeting with the CEO of the school [Patrick Stuart], I was told that the reasons behind it were one, that the boys were going to start lusting after her and have impure thoughts about her and that the locker-room talk was not appropriate for a female to hear even though she had a separate locker room from the boys.
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When asked about the possibility of lusting in non-sports activity, such as walking down the school halls, Blythe says the school had no explanation.
Maddy noted, “I’m still taking it all in, knowing that I’m not gonna be able to have as much fun as I did last year. But really, it just really, really hurts, because knowing all that fun is gonna be taken away just because I’m a girl.”
Mom and daughter are not giving up the fight to keep Maddy on the gridiron.
They’ve launched a Facebook page titled “Let Her Play,” a campaign for female athletes that has received more than 8,400 likes at this point.
Maddy Paige of Jackson, Ga., was the starting left defensive tackle as a sixth-grader for Strong Rock Christian School, a private academy in Locust Grove, Ga.
But she was recently informed by the private school’s CEO that she was not welcome to play as a seventh-grader.
“It’s like taking my dream and throwing it in the trash,” Maddy told WXIA-TV in Atlanta.
As far as a reason, Maddy’s mother, Cassy Blythe, told the station: “In the meeting with the CEO of the school [Patrick Stuart], I was told that the reasons behind it were one, that the boys were going to start lusting after her and have impure thoughts about her and that the locker-room talk was not appropriate for a female to hear even though she had a separate locker room from the boys.
LINK TO THE ORIGINAL STORY
When asked about the possibility of lusting in non-sports activity, such as walking down the school halls, Blythe says the school had no explanation.
Maddy noted, “I’m still taking it all in, knowing that I’m not gonna be able to have as much fun as I did last year. But really, it just really, really hurts, because knowing all that fun is gonna be taken away just because I’m a girl.”
Mom and daughter are not giving up the fight to keep Maddy on the gridiron.
They’ve launched a Facebook page titled “Let Her Play,” a campaign for female athletes that has received more than 8,400 likes at this point.
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