My guess is that if you look at the prime basketball area in most
schoolyards, you will find it monopolized by the most talented players
(which in our case was almost exclusively boys) as though it were their
birthright.
I had addressed the issue of the basketball court among the staff before,
but it wasn't until it surfaced as an issue among the girls themselves, in
their girls' group (they had notably not raisied it in their mixed gender
classrooms) that it was finally attended to. It's one of the reasons I'm
such a fan of girls' groups.
Tim
flinders@wco.com