TITLE IX AT WORK: Baseball bleachers taken down after ruling that girls softball team’s seats must be equal.

A set of seating is being torn down outside the Plymouth Wildcats varsity boys’ baseball field, not long before the season begins, because the fields for boys’ and girls’ athletics must be equal.

A group of parents raised money for a raised seating deck by the field, as it was hard to see the games through a chain-link fence. The parents even did the installation themselves, and also paid for a new scoreboard.

But, after someone complained to the U.S Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, an investigat[ion] by the department determined the new addition was no longer equal to the girls’ softball field next door, which has old bleachers and an old scoreboard.