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[quote=Anonymous]OP here:  yes, the community is working with the school on a volunteer plan and its good to hear other schools have done that successfully.  Its been slow going but I'm hopeful something can be worked out.   Thanks for all the responses.

My main question was whether DCPS was moving away from the default rule of keeping school fields open to the public, because Bancroft seemed to imply that was the case and I thought it was the exception rather than the rule.   We've been to Eaton, Shepherd, Tubman, and many other fields on the weekend so this was news to me.   Sounds like fields are only open in "wealthier neighborhoods " now.

I get that  school budgets may have gotten too tight to handle maintenance in other neighborhoods where the vandalism risk is greater.

DPR should step up too.  The public parks near Mount Pleasant like Walter Pierce  and the Powell Park/16th Street park also lock their fields to the community.  In those cases, I think they're reserved for formal sports leagues.  [/quote]

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