My mentor and friend Farra just shared some awesome videos from the V is for Victory campaign. They're raising awareness about how girls sports still aren't treated fairly at lots of schools.
I could relate to this undercover video showing the drastic differences between the boys and girls facilities at one school. In my high school the gym only had a boys locker room. The coach's changing room (which was the size of a large walk-in closet) had been converted into a makeshift girls locker room. So every class period 40-50 girls had to squeeze into that tiny room to change. Some people changed in shifts and some people resorted to just pulling their sweats on over their street clothes in the hallway.
One day at the end of class we went back to the locker room to change back into our regular clothes and the door had been removed! When we complained to the male gym teachers they brushed us off by saying we better hurry or we'd be late for class. It was pretty unbelievable.
Do you have horror stories about inferior equipment, not having uniforms or unacceptable facilities?
One day at the end of class we went back to the locker room to change back into our regular clothes and the door had been removed! When we complained to the male gym teachers they brushed us off by saying we better hurry or we'd be late for class. It was pretty unbelievable.
Do you have horror stories about inferior equipment, not having uniforms or unacceptable facilities?
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