Will FCPS open its fields and gyms for youth sports in June?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reputable? Assuming you intended to mean a good reputation, it is clearly not well deserved. No coach with a good sense of priorities would be defying the law. Setting aside the danger of transmission, the messages the coach (and the parent) communicates to the kid are (1) the rules are for others to follow, not us, and (2) getting better at this game is so important that it’s worth the risk of infection.

+1. And no parent should be bragging that they allowed their child to participate.

I am bragging about it. Why do you think neither the school security nor the police enforce the law?

The number of covid-19 cases in VA is still going up and not enough testing, and yet, they open the athletic today. What change between last week and this week?

Are you proud about sending your kid out to practice during the height of a pandemic? Proud that back in March when the entire country was being asked to stay at home, you sent your kid out on a regular basis to practice? Proud that you taught your kid that rules don’t apply to him and that he doesn’t need to listen to government orders?

Really, you have nothing to brag about. But I’m sure you will.

My concern is that these kinds of parents will make their kids play through pain and hurt themselves more. In addition, the parents seem to have more invested than perhaps their kid.

Looking back in 20-30 years it’s going to make grandpa/grandma look so out of touch. While everyone else was staying home, we were hitting the field hard. Har-had-har.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So if a team is comprised of 10 or more players, they won’t be allowed to play or obtain a permit? Do coaches and parents count towards the total?

If the bars start to open, then the fields and courts should be fully open , no restrictions! Why punish kid sports?

Yes, coaches and parents count toward the total. But most guidance I’ve read, suggests parents only drop off for practices.

Coaches have been training group of five kids or less in the Mclean area at places like Mclean HS, Long Fellow MS, Cooper MS and Franklin Sherman ES since March. The police or school security saw that but said nothing. The HS school track was opened on 05/22 but the athletic field remains closed; however, I see coaches give training to group of five or less kids on the football field at both Langley and Mclean HS football field. Again, police and school security saw that but did nothing. These coaches are from very reputable clubs. How do I know this? One of those kids on the field is mine. He never stops training with coaches in person during the pandemic since March at those fields.

Very happy that starting today, they can train together with less than 10 kids on the athletic field. They might train at either Spring Hill Rec Center, Linway Terrace or Lewinsville Park today.

Go out and have fun kids.

This, and it is the same virtually everywhere, agree with it or not.

In many cases they are only working with the top/key players during this time. Those never stopped practicing (in some form) at all.

[Anonymous]

Our league just sent us a copy of a letter rec football (FCYFL) sent to Fairfax begging to use the fields this fall.

[Anonymous]

The biggest crime is the governments keep the fields closed because fields need a permit to use them even though organized activities are outlawed.

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The fields are open?

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Anonymous wrote:The fields are open?

The fields was NEVER closed in the first place. The field at Franklin Sherman ES, Longfellow MS, Mclean HS (the grass field facing Westmoreland street) football practice field. Furthermore, both the turf field and the grass field at Lewinsville Park were open throughout March and April. I saw coaches provided 1-on-1 training or in a group of 4 or less there. The police, school security patrol and park personnel did not enforce the rule during that time. Kids that trained with coaches during that time are elite athletes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My concern is that these kinds of parents will make their kids play through pain and hurt themselves more. In addition, the parents seem to have more invested than perhaps their kid.

Looking back in 20-30 years it’s going to make grandpa/grandma look so out of touch. While everyone else was staying home, we were hitting the field hard. Har-had-har.

You should worry about your own kids and let others worry about theirs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reputable? Assuming you intended to mean a good reputation, it is clearly not well deserved. No coach with a good sense of priorities would be defying the law. Setting aside the danger of transmission, the messages the coach (and the parent) communicates to the kid are (1) the rules are for others to follow, not us, and (2) getting better at this game is so important that it’s worth the risk of infection.

Please get off your high horses. It is easy for you because you didn't lose your job and the primary source of income. It tells you something when law enforcement refuses to enforce the rule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fields are open?

The fields was NEVER closed in the first place. The field at Franklin Sherman ES, Longfellow MS, Mclean HS (the grass field facing Westmoreland street) football practice field. Furthermore, both the turf field and the grass field at Lewinsville Park were open throughout March and April. I saw coaches provided 1-on-1 training or in a group of 4 or less there. The police, school security patrol and park personnel did not enforce the rule during that time. Kids that trained with coaches during that time are elite athletes.

+1000

Exactly this. The fields were never closed- they just won’t issue field permits. Two completely different things.

[Anonymous]

I don't know - I remember McLean youth soccer sent a message that we weren't allowed to go on the fields at all, because apparently people were doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know - I remember McLean youth soccer sent a message that we weren't allowed to go on the fields at all, because apparently people were doing that.

You can NOT have organized soccer game but you CAN have pick up soccer game as long as it is less than 10 kids. You can have pick up soccer game at Langley HS athletic field with less than 10 kids and it is perfectly LEGAL. I saw a bunch of kids playing pickup baseball game this evening at Langley HS with parents standing outside talking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fields are open?

The fields was NEVER closed in the first place. The field at Franklin Sherman ES, Longfellow MS, Mclean HS (the grass field facing Westmoreland street) football practice field. Furthermore, both the turf field and the grass field at Lewinsville Park were open throughout March and April. I saw coaches provided 1-on-1 training or in a group of 4 or less there. The police, school security patrol and park personnel did not enforce the rule during that time. Kids that trained with coaches during that time are elite athletes.

All Fairfax school and park fields were closed. People just chose to ignore. Now, in phase 1, they are open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fields are open?

The fields was NEVER closed in the first place. The field at Franklin Sherman ES, Longfellow MS, Mclean HS (the grass field facing Westmoreland street) football practice field. Furthermore, both the turf field and the grass field at Lewinsville Park were open throughout March and April. I saw coaches provided 1-on-1 training or in a group of 4 or less there. The police, school security patrol and park personnel did not enforce the rule during that time. Kids that trained with coaches during that time are elite athletes.

All Fairfax school and park fields were closed. People just chose to ignore. Now, in phase 1, they are open.

Why did the school security, police or park personnel refuse to enforce this rule?

[Anonymous]

I was at Langley High School since last Friday for my daily run on the high school track and I notice:

1- I see multiple groups of teenagers, less than 8, either play football or soccer on the football field (inside the track),

2- I see multiple multiple teenagers running on the high school track,

3- a few people playing soccer on the grass field right next to the high school running track,

4- There are people practice hitting on the baseball field,

None of this strikes me as risky at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reputable? Assuming you intended to mean a good reputation, it is clearly not well deserved. No coach with a good sense of priorities would be defying the law. Setting aside the danger of transmission, the messages the coach (and the parent) communicates to the kid are (1) the rules are for others to follow, not us, and (2) getting better at this game is so important that it’s worth the risk of infection.

Please get off your high horses. It is easy for you because you didn't lose your job and the primary source of income. It tells you something when law enforcement refuses to enforce the rule.

To argue that it's about the economy and jobs and then support something like this that puts people at risk, and has no economic benefit whatsoever shows that you have no sense whatsoever.