Fast forward to this the front page of the February 13, 2008 Kansas City Star. A Referee does not get to officiate a boys high school basketball game. Why? Because the Referee is a female. How pathetic is that. St. Mary's Academy officials told the woman she could not Referee the game. Now i'm sorry, but what exactly did this lady do wrong that she somehow can not officiate a game? St. Mary's officials told Steve Rock of the Kansas City Star, "That would be putting a woman in a position of authority over boys."
Doesn't the school have female teachers? The write up in the Star says "yes", which makes this whole thing much more confusing to me. I have seen plenty of high quality female Referees officiate boys and mens basketball games. There should be times when Referees need to be punished for things, like say making a bad call during the Villanova - Georgetown game. But punish a Referee because she is female?
This is just ridiculous. What year are we in? Did St. Mary's Academy somehow revert back in time to when women had no rights? I'm in graduate school finishing my MBA right now and I will tell you there are some very smart women in that room. I'd like to see St. Mary's Academy tell those women they have no authority. It would not end pretty for St. Mary's thats for sure.
Here is the link to the KC Star article!
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Officiating is a rare craft where employees are only accountable to other people that do the same thing. The same idea runs up and down the chain, "it's a tough job and you can't always be right". Well, that is crap, there is either a foul or there isn't one and most of the time it doesn't matter, but sometimes it does and that is what performance based pay is. They officiate, then an internet poll determines what percentage of a preset salary that they deserve, 0-100%. That is how it should be.
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