McKevitt, Susan wrote:
>
> If your daughter was marked down for speaking out on an equity issue,
> that constitutes retaliation. Retaliation is actionable under Title IX
> and if all else fails, file a complaint first with the school and if
> that doesn't work, go to OCR (Office of Civil Rights) That the
> Superintendent was "embarrassed" is not enough. The teacher must be
> corrected.
>
> Susan McKevitt
> Administrator
> Bureau for Equity
> NH Department of Education
> 101 Pleasant Street
> Concord, NH 03301
> Phone (603) 271-6613
> Fax (603) 271-1953
> Email: smckevitt@ed.state.nh.us
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: C123S105L [SMTP:C123S105L@aol.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 1998 5:43 PM
> To: edequity@tristram.edc.org
> Subject: Obvious teacher's retaliation against my
> daughter
>
> Our daughter Ingrid who is a First Division Soccer Player and
> who last month
> won a trophy at a tournnament for Best Offensive Player out of
> 160 children
> and
> 12 teams has learned today at the age of ten ''what price is to
> be paid'' when
> one speaks out. because of the dificulties we had had with this
> GYM teacher
> because of her open discrimination against the girls in the
> past, Ingrid's
> grade
> was a C+ which automatically prevents her from obtainning the
> First Place
> Honors she would have been entitled to otherwise. Withount our
> knowledge she
> approached her teacher and asked her to please allow her to
> re-take the test
> or
> assign her x-credit and was told no. The classroom teacher also
> approached her
> and with the same results. Can anyone give us some ideas as to
> how to begin
> on this one? Ingrid needs a half point. This teacher told us in
> a meeting we
> held over the first incident, and who had the Assistant
> Superintendent and
> TITLE IX
> coordinator that ''she had the school records'' to prove'' that
> girls were not
> as good
> in GYM and that all they (the girls) knew what to do best in her
> GYM class was
> ''squeal''. The Superintendent turned red. She told us later
> ''she felt so
> embarrased
> over this teacher's comments.
>
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