Can a girl play football in a Catholic school?

In this article(http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/14/us/philadelphia-archdiocese-boys-only-football/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1) from CNN on February 14 by Sarah Hoye, Caroline Pla, a 11 year old girl in Philadelphia, has played football since Kindergarden, but now that she is 11 her Catholic school will not allow her to play anymore. This story is more of a report, not a critique  She plays guard and defensive end. The school put a mandatory “boys-only” policy in last year. The schools reason for not letting her play football anymore was that it is too physical for her and she could get hurt. Caroline says that she has not gotten hurt yet playing football ever. Her mother started a petition hoping that she would get 100 signatures and she has gotten 1,000 signatures. The Catholic schools archbishop tells Caroline that he’s only trying to protect her and not to get the media involved because it is disrespectful.<br> This article points out gender biases in schools particularly in Catholic schools. That being said public schools have a large range of biases going on today. Take for example the special education classes that people with physical and mental disabilities go to. Are they preparing them for the the real world or when they have graduate high school? Could they include them in regular classes and try to interact with normal people? I think not they are lead to believe they are normal and when they are no longer able to go to high school, they either work in workshops or do a low functioning job that pays minimum wage and live in a group home. <br> I read some of the comments over and took this away from them. Some people that commented think that girls should not be allowed to play football at all. They give the excuse that when she grows up, that she will get overpowered. I say what is wrong with letting girls play football when they are growing up, let them play. Its a sport that if a girl wants to play it and takes the risk of getting hurt or seriously hurt then let them do it. I think that the medical doctors could make the decision about girls playing a hard hitting contact sport such as football not the school officials or the archbishop. The medical doctors have studied the effects of concussions and head injuries  So they should have the knowledge and decision making of whether or not girls can play football. There were some negative comments nothing related to the story, but they have nothing to do with the news story.  There are many articles like this on the web. For example, the baseball steroid case that just came out of couple of days ago with Ryan Braun’s name on them. Although it is rumors and not factual yet, Braun had nothing to say to the media about that. I think that the media does not have the right to judge based on rumors because they do no research to back it up.

Twitter is more popular then ever!!

I chose to do a news story about a study about Twitter being the fastest growing social media out there(http://mashable.com/2013/01/29/twitter-fastest-growing-social-platform/).The article says that Twitter in the second quarter to the fourth quarter in 2012, grew 40% according to the Global Web Index. Also the Global Web Index says that amounts to 288 million active users. Since 2009, it was estimated Twitter had only 35.47 million users. Since then, Twitter has seen its user base go up by 714%. This article also points out that Twitter users are more engaged, in that 59% of Twitter accounts are active on a monthly basis. <br> 

I agree with this claim of Twitter is the fastest growing social media outlet out there for several reasons. First, everybody can access it from anywhere they are. More and more devices have some kind of Twitter applications on them. Devices like IPads, phones and even PlayStation Vitas have Twitter applications on them.So it is an ease of access for people to tweet out something.  Secondly, I see Twitter in more popular culture and in main stream media. Almost every commercial has a hashtag in one corner or another, telling you to tweet about their product or TV show. For example, ESPN SportsCenter has a top 10 sports plays where you can vote for the best top ten sports plays every night. The ESPN hashtag is #SCTop10. Then every night they tally up the Tweets and put the most Tweeted top sports plays and then put them on. The third reason why I agree with this article is because Twitter is less commercialized than other social media outlets.  Take Facebook for example, Facebook is filled with games, promoted advertising and advertising in the news feed. Personally I do not like it and I’m sure others are turned off of it because people do not care what other people are liking as advertisements. Facebook for me is a site where you get on to keep up to date with everybody. I do not use it for anything else other then that. The fourth reason that I agree with this article is that I think that Twitter is a niche problem solver. What do I mean by niche problem solver? I mean  that you can search for items that interest you and start a conversation with people that have the same interest you do. Like say you want to know what are people thoughts on the Super Bowl, you would just put #Superbowl in the search on the Twitter application that you have. It would give you Tweets that everybody had Tweeted on Twitter. Another example would be let’s say you want to see what’s the latest PlayStation 4 news is, you type #PS4 or #PlayStation4 and the Twitter application brings up what other people and news are saying. The final reason is that social networking is more popular then ever before. Facebook started this upwards trend of social networking and it has exploded into other networks like Twitter and Instagram.