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United States News Title: School freaks out over boys baseball storage shed (Video at the link) Youd best get out your hip waders, folks were 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. Thats 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. Title IX states: No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. In other words, for every boy sport there must be a girls alternative. And in the case of Arbor View High School if the boys have a storage shed the girls must have a storage shed. Click here to follow Todd on Facebook for conservative conversation! It requires that we have equal facilities for boys programs and girls programs, district spokesman Joe Murphy told 8NewsNow.com. It doesnt seem to matter one iota that the girls softball team never asked for a storage shed. The girls arent complaining, Carl told me. Its totally coming from the school district. Youve probably turned to your significant other and wondered aloud, Those administrators are morons. Theres no reasonable way a storage shed could violate Title IX. But were not dealing with reasonable people here, folks. Were dealing with public school administrators. We have a compliance problem and thats not something we can allow, Murphy told the television station. Oh, but it gets even worse for the booster club. The school district is making the parents pay to remove the shed. The funds have already been taken out of the baseball fund -- $10,000, Carl told me. The remaining funds were taken out of the high school fund. It cost a grand total of $21,000 to remove a shed that was given to the baseball team at no cost. The school district took every single penny of the booster clubs money. Its a mess created by adults, Carl lamented. Indeed it is, sir. Indeed it is. I do wonder, though, how far the government is willing to take this Title IX equality nonsense. I mean, boy athletes do have parts that girl athletes dont have. How does the Department of Education propose to remedy that? Todd Starnes is host of Fox News & Commentary, heard on hundreds of radio stations. His latest book is "God Less America."
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Government and school districts are stupid. There I said it. The school admin at the HS are stupid as well. All they had to do was move some female sports equipment into the shed from the softball team and it becomes a 'dual use' facility. Really idiots all around. For every moronic bureaucractic edict there is a clever bureaucractic work around or loop hole. Fight fire with fire with these bureaucractic robots. $21,000 to remove? Really? I could have showed up with a platoon of friends all with diesel pick up trucks, chains and garage power tools and have that shed down and the foundation removed in 2 hours at no cost other than buying them all lunch.
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