I think applying Title IX to the classroom would drastically lower the competency level of mathematics, science, and any other subject matter in the United States. I believe that the main focus of Title IX in athletics was to ensure equal funding to both male and female teams. Sports teams are not co-ed, and there were many serious circumstances where male teams were receiving more funding than female teams. Title IX has resolved the funding issue. Classrooms, however, are co-ed. There is no discrepancy in funding for males and females. If Title IX were to be enforced over academia a large number of problems would immediately arise. First, schools and universities would suddenly have to deal with all the administrative overhead of knowing and enforcing which students were in which classes. Public schools would be hit especially large, my high school certainly didn't have any extra money, and programs were constantly being cut to stay within the budget. Once students reach a college / university level they should be able to study whatever they want, they're paying for it. If Title IX is enforced, suddenly the majority of students wanting to go into engineering or computer science are told to find a new major because they're male. If the purpose is to create a better educated, and motivated workforce of the future denying students access to their interests will achieve the exact opposite. How could it possibly make sense to deny a student from the field they are interested in because that area has 'too many' males, or 'too many' females. While the motivation behind the bill may be for increasing opportunities in fields dominated by either sex, the result would be a dramatic drop in the quality of students exiting institutions. Rather than focusing on education we'd be focusing on quotas and diversity ratios. The effect would be contrary to the design, and detrimental to society as a whole.

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