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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is it any different than kids playing on the playground after school (or is that not permitted either)? [/quote]

Our elementary school does restrict kids playing on the playground while after-care is in session (i.e., when the school is in operation). They won't make a fuss if a parent is there, the kids are behaving properly and and the after-care kids aren't out, but I have seen school employees direct kids off the playground when all of those things aren't true.[/quote]

Really? That is sad. The school playground should be open for use by the community when school is not in session. There are so few decent non-school playgrounds in most neighborhoods.[/quote]

The key being, "when school is not in session." School is in session for kids whose parents pay for before and after care, but not for everyone. I don't know about your school, but at our school, the aftercare kids play on the playground during aftercare in nice weather (I can't speak to before care, I've never been at the school at that time). The regulation is in part to protect the children enrolled in aftercare, to make sure that they are the only kids playing at the playground, and that other children can't come around to make trouble, and neighborhood weirdos can't start creeping on them.[/quote]

Oh, I didn't realize that MCPS provided aftercare. I don't consider aftercare "school" in session. Its daycare. Shrug. Glad no one has tried to pull that crap at our school! We love hanging out at the playground on nice days after school. The daycare kids are free to join us.  :lol: [/quote]

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