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Have you been inside the gym recently? I mean the basketball court. Thursday, December 22, I walked in the gym and saw the children just slipping and sliding why trying to play a game. The floor is real slippery. It has been that way for at least, I believe, three months.
Karate class is held three times a week in the gym for children. To the disgust of the teacher and students, the slippery floor causes many of them to slip and fall, and risk injury, while doing the various drills.
The floor is not the only problem. I looked up and noticed that five (5) lights in the ceiling were out and two (2) more were very dim. Thus it was kind of dark in the gym. But wait, these lights did not just go out. Three of them have been out since October 2010, and the other two since, I believe, the spring of 2011. How can this be true in a county where so much pride is expressed about taking care of its facilities for youths?
The director says that he has requested the bulbs be installed several times, but his request has not been honored.
Bailey's is a community center that is in a neighborhood of primarily minorities. Its participants are mostly Africans, Muslims, and Latinos.
I have been asked by children and adults to explain how come our gym looks so bad?
The answer is beyond me.Maybe somebody should ask Pam Washington. She is the number one, advocate, in my opinion, to make sure that basketball teams are not organized for youths. It is my belief, based on my experience; she is the only person in the community the county officials listen to. A slippery floor and dark gym can almost guarantee that no organize basketball will be played in the gym. I'm not going to comment much on the string-less rims and dirty backboards at this time. However, the pictures below show you the dirty backboards, stringless rims, lights out, and the spot on the floor where it is dangerous to run or exercise.
.(You can see more of my report on BCC at: http://www.gebryant53.blogspot.com/ or Google, Grady E. Bryant's Expressions).
Have you been inside the gym recently? I mean the basketball court. Thursday, December 22, I walked in the gym and saw the children just slipping and sliding why trying to play a game. The floor is real slippery. It has been that way for at least, I believe, three months.
Karate class is held three times a week in the gym for children. To the disgust of the teacher and students, the slippery floor causes many of them to slip and fall, and risk injury, while doing the various drills.
The floor is not the only problem. I looked up and noticed that five (5) lights in the ceiling were out and two (2) more were very dim. Thus it was kind of dark in the gym. But wait, these lights did not just go out. Three of them have been out since October 2010, and the other two since, I believe, the spring of 2011. How can this be true in a county where so much pride is expressed about taking care of its facilities for youths?
The director says that he has requested the bulbs be installed several times, but his request has not been honored.
Bailey's is a community center that is in a neighborhood of primarily minorities. Its participants are mostly Africans, Muslims, and Latinos.
I have been asked by children and adults to explain how come our gym looks so bad?
The answer is beyond me.Maybe somebody should ask Pam Washington. She is the number one, advocate, in my opinion, to make sure that basketball teams are not organized for youths. It is my belief, based on my experience; she is the only person in the community the county officials listen to. A slippery floor and dark gym can almost guarantee that no organize basketball will be played in the gym. I'm not going to comment much on the string-less rims and dirty backboards at this time. However, the pictures below show you the dirty backboards, stringless rims, lights out, and the spot on the floor where it is dangerous to run or exercise.
.(You can see more of my report on BCC at: http://www.gebryant53.blogspot.com/ or Google, Grady E. Bryant's Expressions).
