Equality! DOJ says boys’ baseball field is nicer than girls’ field, must die

Daily Caller ^ | March 28, 2014 | Robby Soave

[grundle]

The U.S. Department of Justice determined that a Michigan high school broke federal civil rights law by allowing its boys’ baseball team to fix up its athletic field, making it nicer than the field belonging to the girls’ softball team–even though the improvements were paid for privately.

To avoid a fine, Plymouth Canton Community Schools had no choice but to take down the new bleachers and scoreboard, which had been paid for through a private fundraising drive.

According to DOJ OCR, it was illegal to provide unequal resources for boys and girls. The bleachers also ran afoul of disability law, since they were not handicap accessible.

Six years ago, parents complained that the seating at boys’ baseball games was inadequate.

“It’s hard to watch the game through the black chain link face, so we created our seating deck to sit above,” said parent Dan Gilbert in an interview with FOX 2 news.

Gilbert and other parents installed and paid for the new seats themselves. They were put in years ago. The parents also bought a new scoreboard. But now, the bleachers and scoring equipment will be put in storage until the district can afford to make similar improvements to the girls’ field.

Gilbert disagreed with DOJ’s determination.

“I don’t think parents sitting has anything to do with on-field competition,” he said. “I can’t believe we are tearing something down as opposed to building something.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Probably wasn’t even a parent, but some hippie.

[sickoflibs]

Great, teach those kids an early lesson in Democarts 101.

[BitWielder1]

That's the wrong way to make something equal.
You should take what's bad and make it better, not destroy what's good.
But destroying what's good, destroying peoples labor and money, that's what communists do.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Yup, the same way the Obama admin did the cash for clunkers, paying our taxes to wantonly destroy cars that might not have been very efficient and yet would have served low-mileage drivers very well.

We should not forget the dug-in evil and should insist on better.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

DOJ: aka the Dept. of Jerks.

Boy, they never miss anything relevant do they?

Snail darter fish? Yep, saved them.
Water for the most fertile agricultural land in the US, the San Jaoquin Valley? None, snail darter needs it. EPA also involved in this, more than DOJ except for lawsuits asking for water.

Black Panther thugs doing “voter nullification by intimidation”. Yep, right on it, NOT!

Ray Nagin’s criminality in New Orleans. Yep, right not on it.

Chicago’s bloodbath in the streets. Yep, ignored it for years.

IRS scandal. Missed that one by just “that much”.
NSA scandal. REPEAT ABOVE
Red Chinese operations in California. What operations?

Corrupt Senator Harry Reid? Not interested.
Corrupt Rep. Nancy Pelosi? Not interested.
Probably corrupt Sen. Feinstein. Who?

Kid with a water gun. Right on him. 5 years in jail.

Fast and Furious? Say what?

I can’t get any worse, or can it?

Only November 2014 can start to stem the red and black tides.

[galtman]

Every single day Finland starts looking better to me ... if I am going to be living under the bitter thumb of socialists better to be doing it with experts ... not amateurs ;>}
Not only that, but have you seen Finnish women? All kidding aside Finland was recently listed in an in depth study as the world’s best government ... an A+ in not being intrusive in the live’s of its citizens. The U.S. was in 28th place ... and I was surprised we ranked that high! I fear that the grownups may never be in charge here again!

[lavaroise]

He elite who want no competition love liberals. Anytime someone improves his life, it is deemed hateful by the courts.

This is it.

[ExCTCitizen]

DOJ = Department of Jerks.

[PaulCruz2016]

No good deed goes unpunished by the Injustice Department.

[Political Junkie Too]

And the parents are out the cost of the bleachers.

-PJ

[KC_Lion]

I guess they are going to be Equal.

Like in East Germany.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8I9pYCl9AQ

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[kalee]

Something similar happened at a schoolmy daughter attended. The parents association raised moneyfor a computer labby partnering with a grocery store. The store gave money to the parents organization whenever someone checking out presented a card designating the donation be made. It took us two years ro put computers and software into each assroom. The summer after we completed the project, the county school system took most of our computers and sent them to other schools. When we objected we were told it wasn’t fair for our school to have all those computers. My response was that the other schools were just as capable of raising their own funds, after all they did eat, so shopped just as we did. They just needed some initiative and volunteers to organize the sponsorship and get the word out to the students and their parents. It didn’t matter, they still said it was unfair for our students to have more than others and that all equipment given to a school belonged to the county not the school. Fund raising of any kind for the school got tougher after that.

[kalee]

See my reply at 32.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Equal misery is the goal, and as much misery as possible.

[sten]

I would ignore the DOJ statements and continue playing.

if they want to destroy privately funded public property... they’ll have to do it themselves

remember, WE own the towns, not them

[uncitizen]

GET.OUTTA.HERE.!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Income inequality is nothing compared with bleacher inequality. /Marx

[falcon99]

You are exactly right, but not just communists. It is also what Democrats do. They always bring everything down to the lowest level instead of raising that lowest level to a higher level.

[lee martell]

Okay! You wanna play that game? How about the fact that on average, girls use a lot more public money for medical treatment than boys. So how should THAT be handled? Hmmmm?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”The U.S. Department of Justice determined that a Michigan high school broke federal civil rights law by allowing its boys’ baseball team to fix up its athletic field, making it nicer than the field belonging to the girls’ softball team–even though the improvements were paid for privately.
To avoid a fine, Plymouth Canton Community Schools had no choice but to take down the new bleachers and scoreboard, which had been paid for through a private fundraising drive. “

Equality ping!