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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: happyg on March 30, 2014, 01:29:53 am

Title: U.S. Govt Forces School To Tear Down Brand New Bleachers Because They Weren’t Fair Enough
Post by: happyg on March 30, 2014, 01:29:53 am

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Asinine.

Via The Blaze:

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The U.S Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has forced a school in Michigan to tear down a brand-new set of bleachers for its boys’ varsity baseball team because the new seating is nicer than the girls’ softball bleachers.

The raised seating deck for the boys’ baseball team, which was paid for with money raised by parents, was put in place because fans who’d come to watch games at Plymouth High School in Canton, Mich., were having a hard time seeing the game through the chain-link fence WJBK-TV reported.

The parents installed the new bleachers themselves and even added a new scoreboard to the field, the station reported.

But after an investigation by government officials, which was prompted by an anonymous complaint, the school was told it had to remove the new seating because it was “no longer equal” to the adjacent girls’ softball bleachers, which have yet to get a makeover of their own.

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Title: Re: U.S. Govt Forces School To Tear Down Brand New Bleachers Because They Weren’t Fair Enough
Post by: EC on March 30, 2014, 01:42:23 am

Quote from: happyg on March 30, 2014, 01:29:53 am

Asinine.

That is accurate, but no where near close enough to describe this bit of government work.