Sentence examples for clear playgrounds from inspiring English sources
"The Parks Department does not generally clear playgrounds; we clear the perimeters," said William Castro, the Manhattan commissioner for the department.
He added, "I'm not sure it's cost-effective to go in and clear playgrounds and spent a lot of money and resources when it's typically too cold for kids to play outdoors and when the snow typically melts in a day or two".
And unlike the Department of Education, which clears its playgrounds after every snowstorm, the Parks Department only shovels a path for pedestrians.
Now, the child welfare agency has assigned workers to clear the playground adjacent to the Harbor Morningside Children's Center and promised to repair the other ones.
Ripping through dense grass and spinning through lengthy tunnels is par for the myriad courses here and it soon becomes clear that developer Playground Games has, indeed, created a playground, as corny as that sounds.
"There is no clear evidence that playground safety measures have lowered the average risk on playgrounds," said David Ball, a professor of risk management at Middlesex University in London.
Some young people in the neighborhood said there had long been an unwritten rule to clear the local playground by 9 p.m. for fear of drive-by shootings by dealers.
After a literature review of the relevant playground studies, it became startlingly clear that although the playground was considered one of the spaces in which children have the most freedoms and authority during the school day, they were rarely involved in helping to define problems as they occur, or understand or improve the playground.
It shows a playground slide, clear as day, in New York City's Carnegie Playground.
Nine months passed before all samples taken from this playground were clear of the bacterium.
I'm joking, of course, but the message -- echoed every time I heard it, from my sleep-away summer camp to my elementary school's playground -- was clear: Being gay is thoroughly unclean.
