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.

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.

you are such an idiot. Why does law enforcement refuse to enforce the rule? What does that tell you?

[Anonymous]

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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.

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?

I don’t know. What difference does that make?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

I don’t know. What difference does that make?

Because law enforcement knows that this is a stupid rule and NOT enforceable. That's why.

[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.

+1000

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

Not true. The gates to all the fields at Madison high school were closed with big signs saying all FCPS fields and facilities were closed and could not be used until further notice. Maybe those particular schools didn’t post signs, but FCPS fields were certainly closed. If they weren’t, why would they have sent out emails during the last week announcing they were now opened?

[Anonymous]

Issuing permits has nothing to do with the fields being closed. All the FCPS fields were closed! Now the fields are open but the playgrounds are still closed.

Why is this so difficult to understand?