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Natural or artificial Turf in your athletic field.
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Anonymous
| Just wondering what is the standard nowadays in private schools given all the health downsides of artificial turf. |
Anonymous
| Artificial, natural is too difficult and expensive to maintain. |
Anonymous
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Always look for natural. It is much more sanitary. They harbor staff. They are better for the environment. They are less expensive and easier to maintain.
Synthetic turf fields generally need to be replaced about every 7 or 8 years. They are a maintenance nightmare. I work in the industry and believe me we charge top dollar when your carpeting is ripped or when someone paints cuss words on your field. |
Anonymous
| 10 years for turf, and you get to use it more than grass. Rain doesn't trash it, you don't lose chunks creating holes that kids then turn ankles in, etc. Can be used always and often, unlike grass which gets mud patches in front of soccer goals. Our private has turf |
Anonymous
| We have both. School mainly uses natural but artificial is available too. Just lots of fields and natural is the preferred surface. |
Anonymous
| We have a kid in public and a kid in private. Both schools have turf. Both schools tried mightily to get grass to grow and just couldn't get it to. I like the turf fields. Games aren't canceled as often, so the kids get to play more. If the schools had space, it would be nice to have both, but if a choice must be made, I would choose turf. |
Anonymous
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It’s an old debate that’s been going on for decades, and keeps coming back in each generation. But it’s easily and definitively resolved in this YouTube clip, starting 35 seconds in.
https://youtu.be/QxaQ9cKYQXo?si=MCFOUP48LR9gHjL9 For the record, I could go either way on the topic. |
Anonymous
| If grass could handle the amount of use a city playing field gets, we’d all have grass. But it can’t. So turf it is. |
Anonymous
| One grass. One turf. Turf is filled with something other than chopped up tires. |
Anonymous
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I've played soccer on both and I hate artificial turf because of turf burn. Probably my most painful injury the entire time I played soccer.
I.looked up some studies and people are more.likely to be injured on artificial turf so my anecdote holds out. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35593739/ |
Anonymous
| Some neighbors are concerned by the artificial Turk of my kids school and the school refuses to the test the turf for toxic compounds. I am not sure why. Definitely is toxic but I guess there should be a tolerance level above which artificial turf should be ok. Also I can imagine that the quality of the material is not homogenous (some could be more toxic than others). |
Anonymous
| Grass at our school. |
Anonymous
What does “they harbor staff mean”? I thought at first it was a misspelling of “staph,” the bacteria, but that would not be a positive thing and would specifically contradict the previous statement that they are more sanitary. So what does it mean? |
Anonymous
The NIMBYs are always going to find things to be concerned about. |
Anonymous
Sure. But I think they have a point by suggesting natural grass. |