Girl dismissed from football team because of potential 'lustful' thoughts by boys

Maddy Paige is a football player. She was the starting defensive end last season for Strong Rock Christian School in Locust Grove, Georgia as a sixth grader. The now 11-year-old was looking forward to trying out for Strong Rock's middle school football team. Strong Rock will not allow Maddy's to tryout this year, though. Why? Maddy Paige can't tryout for the middle school team because she's a girl and the school's afraid the boys might notice.

Seriously, Strong Rock's CEO told Maddy's mother that the boys on the team would start "lusting after Maddy." I'll give everyone a second because I threw up in my mouth a little bit, too. They're kids. They don't know what lust is. For the sake of keeping down our lunches, I'll replace lust with like for the remainder of this post. The situation presented here is the textbook definition of excessive adult interference. Have a look at the 11 Alive story below (email subscribers click here).



Strong Rock's official position states that "middle school girls play girl sports and middle school boys play boy sports." Are the girls' uniforms pink and the boys' uniforms blue as well? And what should be done about math, science and social studies class? I'm sure there are boys in those classes with Maddy .

School officials are also in error because they allowed Maddy to play in the first place. They were fine with her sacking the quarterback from her defensive end position last season. Now, not so much. I know some readers will contend that Maddy may get hurt playing football with boys who are inching ever closer to puberty.

That would be a debate worth having, but the school doesn't seem to be interested in whether or not the boys will hurt Maddy. They're more concerned about whether or not they will like her. It's silly and insulting to all of the kids, their coaches and parents. If Maddy is good enough to make the team, she should play.

Removing girls from view doesn't make boys like them any less. Any boy who can no longer look at Maddy on the football field need only wait until 4th hour math - where he can gaze upon her until his heart's content. Yeah, I know. It's even sillier in print. Good luck, Maddy!