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Title IX

It’s been forty-one years since Title IX was passed. For years girls have taken advantage of the opportunity to play high school and college sports. But in the recent years, with the struggling economy, schools facing budget cuts have been forced to introduce a program that requires students to pay to participate, known as “pay-to-play”. The cost of playing varies between schools from $150 to extreme cases of $500+, and in some schools is a different amount per sport. Doing so has limited both boys and girls being able to participate in sports. So if Title IX was passed to create equal opportunity for women in sports, doesn't pay-to-play not only throw that idea out the window for girls, but for boys and those unable to afford the costs as well? And another question is, “..is America the land of opportunity, or the land of opportunity only for those who can afford the price of admission?”. My paper will take a look at Title IX and the issue of pay-to-play taking away the whole point of why the title was passed.