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.