Parents ask for safer baseball field at LQHS
Some parents at La Quinta High School are asking Desert Sands Unified School District for a safer baseball field for spectators. They claim the field isn’t accessible for people with disabilities and they want it fixed.
“My son will never have his grandparents here. It’s way too dangerous,” said LQHS parent, Judy Gadd. And she’s not the only concerned baseball parent.
“My father in law is handicapped and he stumbles down the hill and there’s always that concern, hopefully he doesn’t fall,” said Gordon Dille, another LQHS parent.
Their sons play on the LQHS baseball team. They say people who aren’t able to make it down a dirt hill to access the baseball field, watch the game from the sidewalk along Black Hawk Way.
“With the Americans with Disabilities Act it would stand to reason that everybody would have access to the facility, not just certain people who can make it down the gravel slippery slope. Now that we have the other schools with brand new facilities it’s time for La Quinta to have a new facility,” said Gadd.
Gadd says she’s been in contact with school administrators but hasn’t been told about any solutions.
“We need to have this rectified for safety. Knowingly that this is a safety hazard and it has not been observed or fixed is a liability. When you have a known liability, we have problems. And if you’re not being accountable to that liability and someone gets hurt, I can imagine things can go disastrously wrong,” Gadd said.
We reached out DSUSD a little after 3 Friday afternoon. A spokesperson confirmed a project is in the works but couldn’t provide any details until next week.
