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The problem with the tennis courts is that skateboarding and roller hockey players tear that materiel up pretty good. It’s pretty expensive to resurface courts so that’s why LPS locks them up.

Fair enough, but aren’t there legitimate ways to deal with that? Opening certain courts at certain times on certain days, for example (permitting easier observation). Or, say, requiring check-in at the school office.

A few years ago we got some guys together to play flag football, and chose a field by the middle school between 14th and 27th on Pine Lake.  We weren’t out there for 20 minutes before a guy came by and told us the field was the property of Lincoln Public Schools and that we were trespassing.  I didn’t quite understand that and argued with him for a couple minutes.  He threatened to call the cops, at which point we decided to leave because it was going to be more trouble than worth. 

I looked into it, and school property is officially the property of LPS, and rights granted to it are those that would be granted to a private business.  There are several ideological problems with that, and as soon as I start and win my crusade against Lincoln’s awful stoplight system, I will tackle that one.

I forgot to mention, this happened on a Saturday morning in the late summer/early fall.

Ah, I was going to mention that when I was a kid, we used the tennis courts to play street hockey. They were just asphalt like the rest of the grounds, though, and they took the nets down over the weekend.

Lincoln doesn’t have that many park spaces, it seems a waste not to use the school’s space.

I can sort of see their point- we found things that school kids should NOT find in our school yard, but those things weren’t left on a Saturday morning, most likely.

Doesn’t the city of Lincoln have some open tennis courts in a few of its parks?