Sign this petition to allow girls in robotics! (at Timmins Public library)!

[Siri]

Originally Posted by gblake

Are you sure about that? If that field isn't your area of expertise, can you cite an authoritative source that confirms your opinion.

I did, Title IX. A public school or library (or any other education program) receiving federal funds in the US cannot exclude people based on gender. This is no more legal in the US than labeling a public school class "boys only literacy" and not offering a girls class.

No one is arguing that students don't benefit based on individualized attention or that types of attention cannot correlate to gender. The argument is that access to attention cannot be gender-based. Under resource limitations, you make it need-based or benefit-based unless (in the US) you'd like to lose a lawsuit.

Can you share what you've read about this curriculum rather than talking around it? From what I've read it's a literacy program trying to use robotics to help keep students reading over the summer. Public libraries run many programs to help keep kids reading over the summer, and the only one I have ever seen that isn't split gender (2 programs) or co-ed is this one that uses robotics.