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Other_Currency2345 t1_j53mmfd wrote

I don't know but I grew up around that park in the seventies and the grass was always green, Kids have always played in that park. I have never seen it look like that.

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Britinnj t1_j53oqu1 wrote

It seems like half the daycares and playschools in JC use it for recess, which I'm guessing didn't happen in the past? Once the weather is nicer, there must be well over 100 kids from different places using it at certain times. And they're often digging up rocks/ playing in mud/ using sticks to tear at the turf, so the grass has no chance at all.

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noncovidcpugh t1_j54uy1k wrote

Always* I got toddlers too but the way some of these more “nature friendly” daycare/preschool kids play is kinda ridiculous. They reseeded a pretty large section this past spring and the kids from one of the fancy preschool were literally ripping the grass apart. For an hour straight.

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Manders44 t1_j57u758 wrote

It’s likely because over decades the soil became compacted for exactly that reason: kids running over it for years.

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