Judge allows school to deny female student spot on basketball team

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Newark, NJ — This isn’t click bait. A New Jersey judge has sided with the Archdiocese of Newark and their not so holy crusade to keep a 13-year-old girl off her school’s boys’ basketball team.

Sydney Phillips, 13, attempted to join the boy’s’ team after the girls’ team at St. Theresa’s School in Kenilworth, NJ was cut for lack of players. But Judge Donald Kessler ruled that the seventh grader could not join the team because it would disrupt “the status quo.”

In 2017, the fact that this story even has to be written is a joke. “Girls are just as good as boys,”  Phillips told the New York Post – citing a pickup game against a team of boys at recess.  

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-Dylan Rossiter(@ByDylanRossiter)