To: Chancellor Carmen Farina, School Chancellor and Tiffany Wallace
P.S. kids locked out of own school playground for Adult Sports Leagues.
For the last 6 years,The Dept. of Education has issued permits for use of public school property for weekly(5 days a week) private Adult Sports Leagues. Kids are literally locked out of their own playgrounds while these games take place. The DOE needs to revoke these permits and give kids back their playground.
Why is this important?
For the last 6 years,the DOE has given permits to Adult Sports Leagues to use Lower East Side school playgrounds for their games locking out local parents and their kids. These games go on for hours 5 days a week with 50 players at any given time. The adult games taking place on D.O.E. property have little to do with socializing through sports and more with socializing centered around binge-drinking culture where "teams" are encouraged to chronicle their drinking on game nights and off-nights, on Facebook and Instagram, in order to win a $100.00 bar tab for having the "team with the best bar spirit". If the DOE is truly for "Kids first" then they need to revoke these permits for private use immediately.