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To: FJB who wrote (777079)	3/28/2014 3:18:30 PM
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Why a Middle School Was Ordered to Tear Down Its Brand-New Baseball Bleachers theblaze.com ^ \| march 28, 2014 \| becket adams 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. Further, government officials said, the new boys’ bleachers were not sufficiently handicap-accessible. The school agreed to tear down the new bleachers after government officials issued a citation. (Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ..

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