When talking about sports and athletics it is important to realize that there are many things that need to be looked at ethically. These things can and will have a major impact on the students and the people involved in these sports. As stated by Whisenant (2010), there are three problems that produce ethical questions, the first is participation, the second is the hiring processes, and the third and final is whether everything is fair or not. These all make clear and perfect sense, participation is only ethical when everyone has an equal chance of participating. The hiring not only has to be ethical, but the person who is hired must be ethical. Lastly, making things fair for bother genders is very important because discrimination is not ethical.
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Participation is key in Youth Sports programs because it not only does help kids stay in shape, build character, and teach interactive skills, it also keeps these programs running at the various schools nationwide. If the youth does not participate these programs tend to be shut down in order to save money, and time. This is why the government enacted Title IX, which states that no student should ever be discriminated because of their gender. Although, it is important to note that it was originally created for students on the basis of discrimination in schools, that no student should be denied access to specific classes because of their gender. Another factor of participation is try-outs, which also needs to be ethical. According to Whisenant (2010), there were cases that students are cut from teams because they are not as talented as others. I know at my high school. We had a policy in place where no one could be cut based on their ability. I believe all schools should have that in place because there is no feeling like being part of a …show more content…
The coach is the most influential person for these students on the practice field or the court. Not only does the process of hiring need to be ethical, meaning that all applicants need to have a fair shot at being awarded the job, and all applicants need have the same opportunity. It is said by Whisenant (2010) that many of the occupations in the Youth Sports programs are held mostly by males. This not only is unfair to females but we are teaching our students the wrong message, that women don’t have a place in the athletic field. We need to make changes, either we are not advertising these positions well enough so we are only receiving male applicants or our hiring processes have not been as ethical as they should be. Either way I recommend that we have at least one female applicant at the
Participation is key in Youth Sports programs because it not only does help kids stay in shape, build character, and teach interactive skills, it also keeps these programs running at the various schools nationwide. If the youth does not participate these programs tend to be shut down in order to save money, and time. This is why the government enacted Title IX, which states that no student should ever be discriminated because of their gender. Although, it is important to note that it was originally created for students on the basis of discrimination in schools, that no student should be denied access to specific classes because of their gender. Another factor of participation is try-outs, which also needs to be ethical. According to Whisenant (2010), there were cases that students are cut from teams because they are not as talented as others. I know at my high school. We had a policy in place where no one could be cut based on their ability. I believe all schools should have that in place because there is no feeling like being part of a …show more content…
The coach is the most influential person for these students on the practice field or the court. Not only does the process of hiring need to be ethical, meaning that all applicants need to have a fair shot at being awarded the job, and all applicants need have the same opportunity. It is said by Whisenant (2010) that many of the occupations in the Youth Sports programs are held mostly by males. This not only is unfair to females but we are teaching our students the wrong message, that women don’t have a place in the athletic field. We need to make changes, either we are not advertising these positions well enough so we are only receiving male applicants or our hiring processes have not been as ethical as they should be. Either way I recommend that we have at least one female applicant at the