Posted on 05/12/2015 4:58:39 PM PDT by jazusamo
You’d best get out your hip waders, folks – we’re about to wade through a steaming pile of government balderdash.
The controversy surrounds a storage shed built by the baseball booster club at Arbor View High School in Las Vegas. The youngsters needed a place to store their bats and balls and bases.
The boosters had wanted to build a clubhouse for the teenage ball players, but after months of delay they came up with an alternative plan.
One of the parents knew the owner of a company that made precast one-story buildings. The company offered to donate the manpower and materials to build the boys a shed.
Carl Pastrone, whose son is a pitcher and outfielder for the Arbor View Aggies, told me they pitched their plan to school administrators and were promptly given a green light. That was in 2014.
The storage shed was erected last September. Boosters installed doors and gave the shed a coat of paint – nothing elaborate.
“It cost the booster club zero,” Carl told me.
And that was that – until a few months ago.
That’s when officials with the Clark County School District showed up at the school and demanded that the storage shed be torn down. They said it violated Title IX.
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Once a week a random “school official” should be dragged from his or her cushy taxpayer financed office, tarred, feathered, and run out of town on a rail on general principle alone.
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At the school district I worked at, the high school baseball team raised money and had mostly volunteers install stadium lighting for night games.
But wait, did the girl's softball team's field have lights?
Nooooooooo........so, the boy's team could not even turn on their stadium lights until the girl's field had lights installed, at enormous expense to the district.
Thanks Teddy.
The powers that be are having a grand time doing everything implied in that, in various ways thru media, regs, laws, courts, culture.
Amen, and the very first one should be the Clark County School District bureaucrat that made this decision.
Can’t they go King Solomon on this business and dedicate 50% to the boys, the other 50% to the girls?
Names, I need the names of the stuffed shirts (stuffed blouses) who freaked out over this and demanded the expenditure of $21.000. tax dollars. Then I want the names of those who APPROVED it. Who are they? What are they ‘working on’ now? This did not happen on it’s own.
It takes a whole lot of folks to assemble something this ridiculous.
G-damn Title ix. F@ck Title ix.
I strongly second that opinion.
Mr. RightField coached high school baseball in a wealthy community in San Diego County for many years. Same thing happened to him, except it was storage lockers and bleachers for the fans.
Private, Christian schools are thriving around here.
sure, there is going to be some pettiness, but that's only because people are petty for the most part...
too bad the parents and boosters didn't think about making a joint venture providing for the boys and the girls equipment..
You are much too lenient. ALL of them should be tarred and feathered. All at once.
You can thank Nixon for that travesty.
Well Mr. Title IX, then YOU need to go fund the girl’s team.
As for paying for removal, that’s your nickel also, because YOU have no legal authority to compel me to pay for ANYTHING.
The booster club can just declare itself broke and refuse to pay for anything.
Too bad the girls were never interested enough to ask for this kind of support.
So why would any conservative say that Title IX is a good thing?
Why go so easy on them
bttt
Agreed!
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