NORCROSS, Ga. – Michael Obertone, parent of a volleyball player at Norcross High School, believes his daughter’s school district has a problem with priorities.

“One would think in 14 years the second or largest school in Gwinnett could get air conditioning” in the gym where the school’s volleyball players are forced to endure “sweltering conditions,” he told WSB-TV 2. “The other night with the storms coming through, it was still 92-93 degrees.”

“Some kids are feeling light headed and they are having to hydrate the living daylights out of them,” Obertone said.

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The situation is especially annoying after school officials earlier this month unveiled a $500,000 digital display board for the school’s football team, he said.

The board, which measures 51 feet by 29 feet, was paid for entirely with money raised by parents, with no contribution from taxpayers required. It’s currently the largest display board at a high school in America, with more video space than the one at the University of Alabama, according to media reports.

“(The old scoreboard) was about 15 or 16 years old and outdated,” Norcross activities director Kirk Barton told BleacherReport.com. “We found a company called Formetco who really jumped on board and was able to expand on (Blue Devils head) coach (Keith) Maloof’s vision for the project.

“The parents went out and solicited private donations for this. There were no school funds of booster funds used for this project. It was all private donations, and they got it taken care of,” he said.

Jarett Cole, a three-star safety at Norcross, described the display board as “outrageous!”

“I feel like it’s going to give us a little bit more motivation because we have the biggest high school scoreboard in the nation,” he told Bleacher Report. “It’s crazy right now. It’s going to be awesome when we do the grand opening. Hopefully, we produce on the field and keep it working a lot this season.”

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Formetco Vice President Jock Gibb told the news site Maloof wanted something that could be a learning tool for students.

“He deal was he wanted something where the students would be involved with it,” Gibb said. “He wanted them to create all the content and handle the production for the board.”

School officials told WSB-TV Norcross High School’s gym was built without air conditioning in 2001 because that was common practice then, but said the district plans to install AC next year.

Obertone said he’ll believe that when he sees it, and while he understands who folks are excited about the new scoreboard, he “wonders why the community hasn’t stepped in to help with the hot gym,” according to the news site.

It’s unclear what, if any, efforts Obertone or other parents of students on the volleyball team have put into collecting money toward a new air conditioning system in the gym.