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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure why it is so hard for some people to understand that the job of public schools -- while first and foremost is to educate its current students -- is also to be a resource for the broader community.

Throughout my whole adult life, my voting place has been a public school.  Community meetings are typically held at the local school.  Some public schools house adult education classes in the evenings.  Others host youth baseball and soccer leagues.  When a disaster strikes, local governments use public schools as staging grounds to provide aid.

When I lived in Columbia Heights, I'd use the Cardozo track in the morning and I'd see a diverse group of people in the neighborhood getting exercise, which was an obvious public health benefit.

Public schools have an obligation to the public.  If you don't want the public to use your school, send your kid to a private school.

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In other places I've lived this has definitely the case. If you were to tell people that the school that their property taxes paid for could only be used by students, six hours a day, 180 days a year, you'd be laughed out of the room.

But I've also learned that a lot of things that work in other places don't seem to work in DC. [/quote]

Don't forget before and/or aftercare, schools are used at least 9-10 hours a day. [/quote]

I think if a meeting were held to discuss this and the administration brought in a garbage can full of the used condoms and broken beer bottles that they collected from the playground when it's left open, then the people suggesting exposing pre-K - 5th grade kids to that mess would be the ones laughed out of the room.[/quote]

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