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The key being, "when school is not in session." School is in session for kids whose parents pay for before and after care, but not for everyone. I don't know about your school, but at our school, the aftercare kids play on the playground during aftercare in nice weather (I can't speak to before care, I've never been at the school at that time). The regulation is in part to protect the children enrolled in aftercare, to make sure that they are the only kids playing at the playground, and that other children can't come around to make trouble, and neighborhood weirdos can't start creeping on them.[/quote]

Why would the aftercare get exclusive use of a school playground after school hours? That is a sincere question. Is that in the aftercare's contract?[/quote]
[b]The school gave them permission[/b]. They have insurance to cover possible accidents.
Geez people . [/quote]

Yes, but why?[/quote]

Because they have staff to supervise the children?? It's not a liability for the school?[/quote]

But after the aftercare is done using the playground exclusively, other people can use the playground -- with or without supervision, at the same liability to the school. So no, that doesn't explain it.[/quote]

Because then there's no argument that the children are there for school-related activities that the school is liable for. If the grounds are kept in an unsafe condition and someone gets hurt because a piece of playground equipment breaks, sure, there might be a case. But the school doesn't become responsible if another neighborhood child assaults your child. If people are dropping unsupervised children off in front of the school to wait for the doors to open and the school does nothing to ban it, then the children arguably are there for school-related activities (i.e., waiting for school to start) and the school system becomes liable for a whole bunch of things like kids fighting under a failure to supervise theory -- they permitted kids to hang out there before school started, but then didn't put a responsible adult out there to monitor them. I'm sure your school always has staff members positioned outside the school during official drop-off and pick-up, and this is one of the primary reasons -- so they can supervise the kids and make sure no one is getting into trouble.[/quote]

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