personalized shirts: girls volleyball put on back burner

Discrimination?
Here's the story
A local 4-A school has set aside a budget of $400 for two volleyball team including JV and Varsity. This compared to $2000 for basketball and probably unlimited for football. There are 20-30 players and 4 coaches, not 50 players for each team and 12 coaches. The JV team has had to dress out in T-shirts and their own shorts as uniforms, all mismatching of course. The Volleyball coaches have to wear whatever, whereas the football coaches all 12 of them have personalized shirts, shorts, hats, etc.
These teams have traveled all over the state competing with other schools and have been defeated very few times yet they get zero recognition at their high school and have been forced out of the fall banquet for reasons not known. They get no trophy for MVP, MIP or ALLSTAR, not even so much as a certificate with their names on it, nothing.
Last year the coach was forced to pay out of his own pocket for a dinner at which the girls would at least be recognized, amounting to well over their alotted budget. Bus drivers aren't provided for the teams, here recently the coach has been responsible for finding drivers in his spare time so that the teams would not have to forfeit.
The varsity team has placed in the regionals the past 3 years including this year and has yet to be recognized for their feats. This team has several multiple sport athletes at which they all excel so its not like they don't deserve it, they just get over looked.
This school receives funding from some of the largest corporations and distributing companies in the state but can barely fork out enough money to pay for t-shirts, let alone REAL UNIFORMS.

So you tell me, is this fair? Would you want your child's sport to get left by the way side? Would you want your school represented this way?(playing in old t-shirts and mismatched uniforms)

Want to know what school would not support their #2 in the region volleyball team? Its easy, which school currently has the #2 football team? There’s your answer!

What do you think should be done?

Just Curious



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