Posted on 03/28/2014 12:02:05 PM PDT by lowbridge
The U.S Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has forced a school in Michigan to tear down a brand-new set of bleachers for its boys’ varsity baseball team because the new seating is nicer than the girls’ softball bleachers.
The raised seating deck for the boys’ baseball team, which was paid for with money raised by parents, was put in place because fans who’d come to watch games at Plymouth High School in Canton, Mich., were having a hard time seeing the game through the chain-link fence WJBK-TV reported.
The parents installed the new bleachers themselves and even added a new scoreboard to the field, the station reported.
But after an investigation by government officials, which was prompted by an anonymous complaint, the school was told it had to remove the new seating because it was “no longer equal” to the adjacent girls’ softball bleachers, which have yet to get a makeover of their own.
Further, government officials said, the new boys’ bleachers were not sufficiently handicap-accessible.
The school agreed to tear down the new bleachers after government officials issued a citation.
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Now transgendered females have lost the improved bleachers.
Discrimination!
Bingo.
I’ll tell you something else. There isn’t a place where well meaning men couldn’t give a wheel chair bound individual a lift into the stadium.
Ramps aren’t the only means of access.
What is the point of America’s existence?
I mean, really, this is what the greatest civilization in the history of mankind has degraded into?
I know the answer. Because we let these dorks exist to make their stupid decisions without question. The school should have said “you can shove the citation”! Instead, they dismantle the stands that were paid for by the parents? We do need CHANGE in this country or else we have no HOPE for a sane future. Dismantle the Dep’t of Ed, along with most of the other cabinet level administrations.
I’ll tell you how they have the time. The Left has it’s proponents scouring the countryside spotting places like this to work their magic on.
One phone call, and out come the correction squads, to save the populace from normalcy.
This is the new normal under Obama/DemRats. The Department of Education is an affirmative action hiring hall. It is a jobs program for affirmative actions types being-—
feminazis
militant gays
lesbians
blacks
Hispanic
etc etc etc ad nauseam
My guess is 5% of the work force is heterosexual white males and they have to be brainwashed liberals or else no fat Federale paycheck for you!!
LOL, yeah, and there’s that too. :^)
i would guess there needs to be a certain amount of space in front of the actual bleachers that allows wheelchairs to sit there, just behind the safety fencing. just a guess.
Insane.
Couldn’t they just claim the folks on the field were girls ?
Along the same lines as a braille keypad at the drive up ATM machine I would imagine.
“”Bleachers have to handicap-accessible? I’m trying to visualize that. Does anybody have a photo of compliant bleachers??”””
Yes, I have installed many.
Excuse me? Please do not accuse me of doing drugs. I guess you are unaware of the upcoming Senate race in which we might have a chance of picking up the seat? I would appreciate it if you keep your drug references to yourself.
The government hates boys.
Educate us.
Pure insanity. They should rebuild it on private property! And reap concession sales
I’d like to meet whoever it was that issued the original complaint. Once someone complains, obviously our stupid government is going to swoop to the rescue. I want to know who picked up the phone and vomited into the mouthpiece.
And what do conservatives do? Spend all their time whining about liberals on talk radio and internet blogs.
The ruthlessness and persistence of the left is perfectly matched by the total passivity of the right.
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