If You Were A Christian School, Would You Fence Off Your Park For Others?

Question

I live by a busy street and my apartment is great for dogs, the only problem is that across there is a perfectly good park that the members of the community could really enjoy except it's completely fenced off so only the school students can use it. I mean fenced in so we would have to hop the fence with our dog.

It just seems rediculous that a beautiful park would be closed off so others can't enjoy it.

Answer 1

Private schools, and most homes, have the right to fence off their property to prevent it from being ruined by trespassers - it is privately owned property.  When you have a home, with a garden you've invested your time and money in maintaining, you'll know what I mean.  My house is 70% walled and fenced in - my hummingbird and butterfly garden (all $12,000 worth of landscaping) is beautiful and will stay that way.

If you want parks, you should form a group to demand the zoning laws be changed.  In the Melbourne, Australia suburbs, there is a law that, for every certain number of houses built, an acre must be set aside for a park.  The area I lived in had 75-80 homes and the park was about 15-18 acres - we celebrated every holiday, and children's birthdays, with a neighborhood b-b-q/potluck which helped form a community spirit.  Americans are too greedy to "waste" revenue-earning land in this manner - dollars are more important than people.  

Answer 2

I think you could contact the school and convince them to let you use the park! You just have to look nice and be charming. If you're a kid, maybe you could work out some kind of trade where you pick up trash in the evenings after the school is closed? Or if you're an adult, maybe you could come up with a professional proposal for converting part of the park into a city-funded dog park. I used to live in a town where someone successfully did it!

Good luck :)

Answer 3

what does not make sense about using a fence to protect the children at a school. if having a better place to walk your dog is more important. than the safety and the health of the kids you got some issues.

Answer 4

It is private not public.

Answer 5

Many people are still irresponsible about picking up dog doo's which are not pleasant for school children to run and play around. Perhaps this is why.  

Answer 6

Yes. It does make sense. There is a school on our block that has a beautiful playground for their students. It is a private school. Before the fence went up, one of the neighborhood kids fell from one of the jungle gyms and his parents sued the school. If you want to preserve the condition of the equipment and to protect yourself from liability, you should fence it off. If someone chooses to hop the fence, then it's trespassing and the hopper is liable for any harm that may come to them.  

Answer 7

private property..liability if someone gets hurt...

And they might not want your dog and other dogs which might bite and c**p everywhere....all people do not clean up after their pets.

Answer 8

if it's the school grounds, it's pretty normal to have it fenced in...  have you ever seen a school before?