A Florida judge ruled that Merritt Island High School violated Title IX sex discrimination laws because the electronic scoreboard, concession stand, and bleachers they accepted from parents as a donation for the boys' baseball field did not have equal counterparts on the girls' field, which made girls' softball team members "second class citizens." Because the school did not have the funds for such improvements, it had to disconnect the scoreboard, close the concession stand, and rope off some of the bleachers.

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