Since high schools are not required to report to the federal government, the way that colleges are, on the gender breakdown and expenditures of their sports teams, it is up to local school leaders to be sure girls are served equally as well as boys.
Mental illness is not a moral failing. The brain, like any other part of the body, can suffer and need healing. We will be a better society if we provide well for people suffering from mental illness.
Many Americans think of sex trafficking as something that happens elsewhere or that its only victims are transported to the United States from foreign lands. A film that was screened last week at Albany Law School, “Very Young Girls,” makes it clear it’s here.
