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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm confused - are you upset about the ticketing, or about the fact that the school's security doesn't have responsibility for monitoring the playground before the start of school each day?

On the ticketing, I'm sympathetic as our daycare (which is at a parochial school where there is a specially marked school drop off area) has the same problem - commuters/workmen/etc who illegally park for hours in the dropoff zone are never ticketed, whereas they watch like hawks during dropoff/pickup hours to get those of us who are forced to park illegally to leave our kids. It sucks, but I'm not sure there's much you can do about it since the law is the law after all. Possibly try your ANC rep or city councillor - ours helped when a construction project tried to block off the entire dropoff zone for the school for 6 months.

However, if you're mad that the security guards aren't policing the playgrounds, sorry I can't even offer sympathy there. I'm a working parent and would love to be able to drop my kids off at their public schools a half hour before school, but the only way to do that is to use (and pay for) a before-care program. You can't really expect DCPS security guards to serve as a childcare service.

Separate question -[b] are you really dropping your elementary aged kids at a playground every day with no adult supervision?[/b][/quote]

They're 10 and 11 and there are usually other kids on the playground.

And yes, I am objecting to the rule about forcing parents to accompany a 10 year old on an enclosed playground when there has been no parking because of construction and if you leave your car for 30 seconds anytime between 8:00-8:30  to accompany your child during the drop off or pick up between 3:15 and 3:45 you will have a $50 ticket. This is not "K" Street--or even Wisconsin Ave or Nebraska Ave. It is a little side street in Tenelytown for an elementary school.  [/quote]

i don't get this--why not park legally further down on Albermarle or on 43rd or 44th street?  We manage to do this every morning and there is lots of parking.  We park at 8:20, get to the school door at 8:30 exactly and then I RUN down the hill to my car and am off at 8:32.  [/quote]

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