Jury Not Unanimous in Cheerleader’s Case

Re “Ex-Cheerleader Loses Lawsuit Against District” (July 10): For educators not only to embrace but to go as far as to get into a court battle over the idea that there should be different scholastic standards for cheerleaders and football players is absolutely unbelievable!

Melissa Fontes went to the staff, the administration, and finally to the Irvine School Board and asked for help. What she got was: “Go away, little girl, don’t bother us.” She clearly pointed out flaws in an existing policy, asked how to change them, and got the wrath of Woodbridge High.

These educators could have made this a positive learning process, showing by example how to right wrongs, but instead they protected their own and attempted to justify discrimination with words like “leadership” and “values.”

If we are not careful, these educators are going to kill the spirit of “wanting to do” and neatly package it in a dogma food can. I, for one, am grateful that van Gogh or Einstein didn’t have to pass chemistry at Woodbridge High School.

Teach your children well, Irvine.

I wish her luck.

VINCENT DI BIASI

Corona del Mar