Pasco girls and parents pressure school district to add flag football as sport

4 months ago

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Hillsborough, Pinellas, Hernando, Polk and Manatee counties all offer flag football for girls, but Pasco does not. || Hssa Staff

Girls from Pasco middle school are now delegating a way forward to add flag football in the high school.  They also want equality just like other counties. 
 
While Mr.  Luedy has a feeling for flag football the 8th grader feels that she will not be able to play the game as much any more. 
 
“…as we add more members, it is amazing to witness the evolution!” she exclaims.  “In all, there are about 40 counties across Florida where the club exists, but ours is lacking.  ”
 
The girls that are not part of travel team Pasco’s Pirate Bay Krewe stand a high chance of not being able to play high school basketball once they are old enough. However, Pasco is the only county in the Tampa Bay district not providing the girls' program with softball. For more than a year, girls and their parents have been arguing in front of the schools, about the necessity of funding, but this hasn’t gotten any results.  Cause there’s no money. 
 
“The fact that it’s not available like other schools around for girls to have such considerable interests towards STEM is a problem for us as parents,” Max’s dad, John Leudy, said.  “It’s quite difficult for us parents who have a girl that is this passionate about something we must make the same chances and opportunities available to our daughter as to other surrounding counties. ”
 
Their being deprived of the opportunity to learn violates the principle of decency, and it has nothing to do with justice at all, but about the future that may be nice for them. Organizations are admiring new sports like flag football and lavishing them with scholarships and eventually will be an Olympic Games sport of 2028. 
 
The girls’ team is struggling finding an opportunity right now, Julie said: “We're working and we're trying.  Furthermore, we have to gather as many girls as we can and crave for flag football to grow. 
 
Boards of schools of an earlier meeting that took place last month manifested official backing. A member of the spokeperson team said today budgets have not yet been finalized and nothing has been determined in regard to budget. 
 
“Two or three months ago we were ghosting, saying to ourselves, are we kidding or just hoping?” remarked Shawn Millard, a Pirate Bay Krewe coach and parent, at the August 12 Pirate Bay Krewe meeting.  “After the last board meeting, we became much more optimistic about it. ”
 
The controversial ones are the parents who sent letters as allied parties to prospective donors with the letters containing the potential funding of schools by residents and businesses. Outside of that, other counties in the region that finances flag football from their local budgets not departmental funding are the only way to offer this sport. 
 
For these girls, the first step was showing the flexibility and perseverance that the boys showed; now, they are not standing in the way for others for years to come. 

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