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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Where do you send people who can’t make it as a Dept of Motor Vehicle employee.....to Dept of Ed!
Calm down there Shirley. It’s a turn of phrase. Perhaps you should call the Civil Rights department and issue a complaint of your own?
Insane.
Parents need to sue the government under the takings clause.
Everybody has a chance until the Dems get busy. (They are targeting Michigan.) Best of luck to you. I hope you’re right.
That was their first mistake.
:-)
Is it still too soon to shoot the bastards?
It speaks volumes that you would defend the statement. And then make a crass comment. A good rule is if you don’t agree with someone’s opinion, fine, but refrain from name-calling. It is childish.
Well, somebody got up grouchy today!
Aren’t leftists always chaining themselves to things they don’t want to see destroyed?
So if they moved the girls to the boys field, and the boys to the girls field, would they still have to tear it down?
No, just raised different, I guess. I have never had a man say to me, “put down the bong”. I could not imagine any of the men I know saying that to a lady, a mother. But to each their own I guess. Good day.
Ma’am, how am I supposed to know that you are a lady, first, and that you are so easy to offend with an expression that is commonly used on FR? Be that as it may, a humbly beg your forgiveness.
If it was paid for by private funds, why is it anybody in the government’s business?.........................
I thought your tagline was quoting the Mrs. Turns out you are she.
You’ve been here for 12 YEARS!
“They can’t understand the concept of private fundraising for a particular activity. “
Oh, they understand. I believe “private fundraising” is a glaring red flag to all big government statists.
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