Pregnant or parenting: Title IX protects you from w88 sports betting app at school

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 ("Title IX11), 20 U.S.C. §1681 et seq., is a Federal civil rights law that prohibits w88 sports betting app on the basis of sex-including pregnancy and parental status-in educational programs and activities. All public and private schools, school districts, colleges, and universities receiving any Federal funds ("schools11 must comply with Title IX.

Here are some things w88 sports betting app should know about your rights.

Classes and w88 sports betting app activities

Your w88 sports betting app must do the following:

  • Allow you to continue participating in classes and extracurricular activities even though you are pregnant. This means that you can still participate in advanced placement and honors classes, w88 sports betting app clubs, sports, honor societies, student leadership opportunities, and other activities, like after-w88 sports betting app programs operated at the w88 sports betting app.
  • Allow you to choose whether you want to participate in special instructional programs or classes for pregnant students. You can participate if you want to, but your w88 sports betting app cannot pressure you to do so. The alternative program must provide the same types of academic, extracurricular and enrichment opportunities as your w88 sports betting app's regular program.
  • Allow you to participate in classes and extracurricular activities even though you are pregnant and not require you to submit a doctor's note unless your w88 sports betting app requires a doctor's note from all students who have a physical or emotional condition requiring treatment by a doctor. Your w88 sports betting app also must not require a doctor's note from you after you have been hospitalized for childbirth unless it requires a doctor's note from all students who have been hospitalized for other conditions.
  • Provide w88 sports betting app with reasonable adjustments, like a larger desk, elevator access, or allowing w88 sports betting app to make frequent trips to the restroom, when necessary because of your pregnancy.

Excused absences and medical leave

Your w88 sports betting app must do the following:

  • Excuse absences due to pregnancy or childbirth for as long as your doctor says it is necessary.
  • Allow w88 sports betting app to return to the same academic and extracurricular status as before your medical leave began, which should include giving w88 sports betting app the opportunity to make up any work missed while w88 sports betting app were out.
  • Ensure that teachers understand the Title w88 sports betting app requirements related to excused absences/medical leave. Your teacher may not refuse to allow you to submit work after a deadline you missed because of pregnancy or childbirth. If your teacher's grading is based in part on class participation or attendance and you missed class because of pregnancy or childbirth, you should be allowed to make up the participation or attendance credits you didn't have the chance to earn.
  • Provide pregnant students with the same special services it provides to students with temporary medical conditions. This includes homebound instruction/at-home tutoring/independent study.

A school that is controlled by a religious organization is exempt from Title w88 sports betting app when the law's requirements would conflict with the organization's religious tenets.

Harassment

Your w88 sports betting app must do the following:

  • Protect you from harassment based on sex, including harassment because of pregnancy or related conditions. Comments that could constitute prohibited harassment include making sexual comments or jokes about your pregnancy, calling you sexually charged names, spreading rumors about your sexual activity, and making sexual propositions or gestures, if the comments are sufficiently serious that it interferes with your ability to benefit from or participate in your w88 sports betting app's program.

Policies and procedures

Your w88 sports betting app must do the following:

  • Have and distribute a policy against sex w88 sports betting app. It is recommended that the policy make clear that prohibited sex w88 sports betting app covers w88 sports betting app against pregnant and parenting students.
  • Adopt and publish grievance procedures for students to file complaints of sex w88 sports betting app, including w88 sports betting app related to pregnancy or parental status.
  • Identify at least one employee in the school or school district to carry out its responsibilities under Title IX (sometimes called a "Title IX Coordinator") and notify all students and employees of the name, title, and contact information of its Title IX Coordinator. These responsibilities include overseeing complaints of w88 sports betting app against pregnant and parenting students.

Helpful tips for pregnant and parenting students

  • Ask your school for help-meet with your school's Title w88 sports betting app Coordinator or counselor regarding what your school can do to support you in continuing your education.
  • Keep notes about your pregnancy-related absences, any instances of harassment and your interactions with school officials about your pregnancy, and immediately report problems to your school's Title w88 sports betting app Coordinator, counselor, or other staff.
  • If you feel your w88 sports betting app is discriminating against you because you are pregnant or parenting you may file a complaint:
    • Using your school's internal Title w88 sports betting app grievance procedures.
    • With the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), even if you have not filed a complaint with your school. If you file with OCR, make sure you do so within 180 days of when the w88 sports betting app took place.
    • In court, even if you have not filed a complaint with your w88 sports betting app or with OCR.
  • Contact OCR if w88 sports betting app have any questions. We are here to help make sure all students, including pregnant and parenting students, have equal educational opportunities!

If you want to learn more about your rights, or if you believe that a w88 sports betting app district, college, or university is violating Federal law, you may contact the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, at (800) 421-3481 or ocr@ed.gov. If w88 sports betting app wish to fill out a complaint form online, w88 sports betting app may do so online via the Office for Civil Rights.

Adopted from U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights