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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GTFO with your "but I'm a taxpayer."

Taxpayers cover the costs of Nationals park and cleaning Muriel Bowser's office every night and no expects to just hang out there at any hour of the day.[/quote]

Nobody is saying they have the right to go into a locked school building in the middle of the night or disturb a school function.  We're talking about opening public fields on a Saturday afternoon so kids can simply kick around a soccer ball, just like they do at so many other public schools in the city.[/quote]

Again, it's not a public park, and the neighbors can't be trusted to take care of the facilities.

And you're trying to draw a false distinction.  Going into a locked school in the middle of the night and going onto a school playground on a Saturday is *exactly* the same thing - accessing school facilities for private use during off hours.  [/quote]

There's a lot of conflation of fields and playgrounds in this thread. DCPS treats them quite differently. Tracks are also treated differently, the running lobby is strong and tracks are required to be available to the public.

No, it is not *EXACTLY* the same thing.   Playing fields and the schools buildings are considered differently.  The default position of DCPS is to have fields open to the public.  (from the policy below.)   The default position for using a school building, like accessing an auditorium to hold an event, is to have a permit.

School Playgrounds

Permitted Hours and Activities 
School playgrounds will be made available at no cost during the following days and hours when the regular school year is in session, other than on District holidays:

• Monday through Friday from 6:30A.M. to 8:00A.M. and from 3:30P.M. until dusk, but no later than 8:00P.M.; 
• Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00A.M to 5:00P.M. [/quote][/quote]

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