Posted on 03/28/2014 6:06:08 PM PDT by 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.”
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i am living in a nation of idiots
IS this from “ THE ONION “ ??
Or you could move the bases and let the girls play on the nice field half the time?
Title nine. I wonder who brought in the DOJ.
keep voting in those rat judges and their ilk.....
now that there’s some goooood governmenting!!
Because the DOJ has nothing better to do than punish school kids, team sports, and those who dare to make private donations to improve public school facilities.
would they have demanded this if they had renovated the girls’ field and they boys’ area wasn’t?
i am 100% certain they would not have.
Liberals are envious, wasteful, destructive, and stupid. In other words, the far left has not changed since their first couple dozen experiments with forced equality under communism failed. This time they are clever enough not to call the latest variant on socialism by its true name, and “progressive policies” are winning the tiny little hearts of bitter lesbians and inadequate pajamaboys.
They want flowers planted along the base lines and around the pitcher’s mound
Did the Gyrlz get the same automatic firearms from the DOJ that the Boyz did?
Yep. Nothing wrong with federalizing education.
Gotta destroy what's too good for some?
-PJ
The school says it does not have the funds, but then, so what? The improvements to the boys' facilities were (as noted) paid for and installed by the parents. And why should the parents of the girls' team do likewise when instead one of them could tattle to stupid Feds who can then force the school to remove the improvements? That way, as is true in every Socialist system, all can suffer equally.
does anyone think that the federal government is out of control???
It is so nice to know that the DoJ is free to tackle these really important issues.
What would have happened if they’d told the DOJ to stuff it?
Ping.
And the girls were complaining? I bet not.
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