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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can't they just grow grass? It's no that hard. it's a weed.[/quote]

Had you been to a grass MCPS field?  Even in HS they are so overused and not maintained (unless your PTA takes care of it- Churchill).  You get holes and huge mud puddles.  Not safe for our student athletes.

And the MS and ES fields are gravel and mud within 2 years (even the brand new fields get this way within a couple years). Again, overuse and not enough maintenance.

The turf fields are cheaper in the long run, and now that they are not using the rubber tire filler, it is much better.

But hey, living leads to dying so...[/quote]

The RM field is the same as the one going in at BCC, so SUCK IT UP KIDS!!!

PUBLIC COMMENTS
BEFORE THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
July 11, 2019

RE: RICHARD MONTGOMERY HIGH SCHOOL’S DEFECTIVE AND DANGEROUS ARTIFICIAL TURF
FROM: JOSEPH P KING, STUDENT

Good evening members of the Board of Education and Superintendent Smith. My name is JOEY King and I am a student from Julius West. My brother is on the Richard Montgomery Football Team and I am here to speak on his behalf since he is at health class this morning.

Since football practice is about to start again, we have all been talking about various home-made padding that we may be able to use to protect his skin, elbows, and legs when practice starts again and during the season.

We were talking about the reports that you also heard about last month at this meeting and also about testimony that you heard last year school year from Molly Winchenbach from the Soccer Team. It seems sad to know that there still hasn’t been commitment by the County to do anything about this during the summer before all the athletes are back on the field. “Looking into it,” was the answer that was given at the last meeting but that is not a good enough answer and probably wouldn’t be one that our teachers would accept if we tried that.

MCPS has already sent out samples of the turf and found clear reasons for the difference between our
field and the other field at Whitman that was replaced recently. This has been known since February.
Can you please tell me, today, a reason that this is being ignored?

• RM’s field is four times the FIFA standard!

Can you please tell me, as I am sure you have found out by now, what was the reason for this?
Who is responsible?
When is it going to be fixed?

MCPS has already verified what was obvious: there is something very wrong with the RM turf and the injuries are too many.
What are you going to do about it?

The band-aid that MCPS came up with last spring did not work. [b]The injuries have continued.[/b]
[b]Not only are you putting their bodies in danger, you are also putting their futures at risk because their
ability to perform is affected. It is unfair for the players that have worked so hard to have their
opportunities for college scholarship potentially affected due to MCPS not choosing to do the right thing here.[/b]

This cannot be the outcome with which you are satisfied.

I have heard that MCPS is in the investigating the replacement of all or most of the fill in RM’s turf all at once over the summer but, since I haven’t heard more, I am afraid that you have decided to not allocate funds or energy for us.

For the sake of my teammates, I am asking you to ensure this remediation gets done immediately.
Please. Do you agree that you owe it to the students whose health and safety you say are your top
priority.

You know, for fact, that this turf is 4x the standard for abrasiveness.
You know the reasons why it is so abrasive.
You know what you need to do to fix it.
Don’t waste anymore time while more students get hurt.

Please. Do it now.

Thank you.[/quote]

I have seen the pictures, if those kids are calling that an injury no wonder the kids these days are so soft, they are scraps, some may call them strawberries.  they happen on basketball courts, volleyball courts, look at a gymnasts hands or even a cheerleaders nose after getting kicked in a stunt.  [/quote]

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