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.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
I’m afraid you could ask Gov. Palin that question . . .
Isn't that the crap that says they have to spend the same amount on girl's sports? What dumbasses.
Nixon did a lot of things wrong, including resigning.
Too bad the girls team parents didn't provide the same type of shed !!!
I thought so...
According to the video at link there were no public funds spent on this and action of some kind may be taken against the district.
My thought is that instead of the district arbitrarily ruling the shed torn down at additional expense they could have worked out something to build a shed for the girls even though the girls didn’t give a hoot.
The rational world is only visible now from our rear view mirror.
Amen to that!
The top half was for the girls but it wasnt good enough
Yep, it wasn’t good enough for the Clark County School District bureaucrat. Tar, feather, rail...That would be good enough for him/her.
If this shed was payed for by private funds not taxpayer dollars, then where’s the problem?
Zer0 and liberals call this kind of waste “Leveling the playing field.”
Smell the shed.
Booster club dollars are not tax dollars. Booster clubs earn money through fundraisers, concessions, etc. Many, not all, go through the school to get non profit status. Others become a nonprofit on their own to keep the school from knowing how much money they have. The school confiscated money raised by the kids and parents for the team, it didn’t use tax dollars from the school’s budget. That’s one reason it’s good for booster clubs to not go through the school.
I have long advocated that all elected officials be required to present themselves to their districts annually for the purpose of being whacked with a 2X4 by their constituents.
But you could talk me into a weekly whacking schedule pretty easily.
If there are THAT many girl varsity baseball players, they can store their bats and gloves in there, too.
Not like the shed says "No girl used equipment!"
FFS, does title IX "require" that there be a 100,000 spectator capacity girls football stadium be built in Ann Arbor?
Can't they SHARE?
Yep, in the video at the link it sounds like they were going to share the shed but I guess that wasn’t good enough for the bureaucrat.
I saw that shed...it was big enough to hold the girls’ stuff too. Equal space could have been offered to the girls team as well so as to not tear a perfectly good shed down. What a waste!!
WOW! I cannot believe.....................
Oh, I smell it alright.
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