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Title IX complaint pushes district review of practice build

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tagup

Pretty sure the girls softball facility received benefit of some donations and volunteer efforts during construction and was not totally funded by the district.

Joel

Good grief. Everybody's a victim these days.

tagup

While I understand your point, women’s athletics has been underfunded for a long time.....

Rustyoar

The point is the baseball hitting facility was funded by private donations and the softball hitting facility, approved by coaches, was funded with school funds. The baseball complex is a beautiful field with new turf infield and bathrooms, however it has to support multiple teams late into the night. Freshman and sophomores starting games on school nights at 7:30 in March stinks for the kids and neighbors. For a 6A school to have only one baseball field is a real challenge. Hopefully a second baseball field can be funded as well as improved safety for that complex along that road. Someone is going to get hit there. There are options for a second field over there, they just need to be approved and executed by the district...

Jim

Rustyoar everything you said is right on the money. The work done this summer was long over due. When the baseball field was torn out to make room for a parking lot all the amenities were at that field. 13 years ago the restrooms, sidewalks, and hitting cages should have been installed then. You are very right in the fact it is hard to hold practices for three teams with one field. Student athletes getting home at 10:00 after a home game is ridiculous. The parking situation is beyond questionable. The dugouts were built in 1978 or 1979 and are far from earthquake proof unlike the building the administration is in. The improvements made this summer were long over due. It goes a long way to prove that instead of remodeling the relic we have for a High School we should have built a larger school on ground that’s not land locked.

tagup

So the guys need an additional field, While the girls play on poorly drained grass fields that are unlighted and unlevel..........and the Baker field improvement of a few yrs ago was partly funded from donations and Its my understanding that Ted Steber did a lot of the construction at a discount (free?).. The district’s Title IX mandate seems pretty clear....

Jim

Tagup the boys outfield needs drained and leveled also. I’ve offered to do it many times and would do the softball fields also. The school district would rather spend taxpayers money than get it done for the cost of the materials with volunteer labor and machinery and I’m not a band leader with out a music lesson when it comes to this kind of work.

Don Dix

Title IX procedure is quite simple and explained in detail. Why school districts cannot seem to grasp the 'equality' requirement is befuddling.

On a related issue, after attending a grand-daughter's basketball game in the new gym, the first thing I noticed was that the Grizzly colors (on the floor trim) are now orange and white. It was also reported that the floor has been painted twice (and still wrong). Whatever happened to do doing things right -- you know -- measure twice, cut once?

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