The feds say you have to have bats at school

For anyone who knows them New Orleans schools are a disaster (although since Katrina there has been some progress). But buerocratic nonsense like this makes you want to scream.

Bat removal at McDonogh 35 hampered by 'endangered species' designation

NEW ORLEANS – Attempts to rid McDonogh 35 High School of bats that have been flying around the third floor are being hampered due to the fact that officials have been told these bats are an endangered species and can’t be exterminated.

School system officials have been trying for weeks to rid the school of the bat problem that has upset parents and students to the point that they staged a rally outside of the school last week to protest.



The third floor of the building has been closed for classes while exterminators try to get rid of the bats. Putting out poison or sprays is not an option as the bats have to be captured and relocated and released, according to school officials...

...Exterminators plan to continue their attempts to capture the bats over the Mardi Gras holiday if need be.

“I cannot understand how these kids are safe and how it is sanitary for these kids to be here with these dropping and everything,” said Jeanine Bavis, a parent.

No Ms Bavis, your kids are not the issue...we got to make sure the bats are safe. I really wonder who can say with a straight face we don't have enough bats in the country. Oh yes, a Washington buerocrat.