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 tried to think of something funny to post, but this makes me too angry.
It vaguely reminds me of “Harrison Bergeron”.
Yep, this one is an outrager.
It is also not fair that the boys can hit farther and run faster. Can’t the judges fix that, too?
The Dept. of Justice? What the hell has happened to this country? Why is the DOJ even getting involved?
We have our known enemies on our door step threating to nuke us, Russia is taking up Hitler’s sword and our stupid ass president goes on another vacation. There is far more things of importance in our once great land that need fixing than spending time of a 2nd rate baseball field.
When will the stupidity stop?
Probably not, but if they did, you can bet women would have united around the girls and fought for them. Where are the men when this happens to boys?
Good point about socialism by experts.
One thing that the NW European experiments with socialism prove (including National Socialism 1933-1939) is that, if the voters believe, and act as if they believe, that they are members of an extended family that it can work.
Multiculturalism and socialism are not compatible. For a multiculti society, or a society with serious class divisions preventing the extended family metaphor from working, you need communism, which cannot be made to work.
You might enjoy looking at the studies I cited ... here’s a link: http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.aspx#reports
That’s why the Dimocrat party platform mirrors the Communist Party USA’s platform ... their goal is and has been to drive us to Communism. Of course the only reason it hasn’t worked anywhere yet is that they just haven’t killed enough people ... 100 million dead more or less ... but who’s counting!!!
Nothing funny about it.
One wonders what the Fed-holes would do if everyone just started telling them to GFY everytime they try this sh*t.
No wonder they want us disarmed...
the men would have gotten locked up. straight men with common sense are not welcome in public schools anymore.
I’m not sure if you’re serious, but arrests didn’t stop the civil rights activists of the 40s and 50s. They stood firm. Why can’t men when it comes to mens’ rights issues?
If the World Series was CHC VS. CWS who would you root for?
Sox. My whole family is Sox.
Cool!
Link to the criminal complaint against Chinese Triad associate Leland Yee. Some fun reading.
One of the main “foundations” of the Democrat Party is hypocrisy.
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