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Dulaney High School proves every season, year after year, that we deserve better facilities, fields, and a track. We have made multiple requests for tasks as simple as reseeding our fields or fixing the showers, but each time we are denied by Baltimore County.
The fields our teams practice and compete on are extremely unsafe! They are uneven, with little or no grass, and littered with exposed rocks and massive divots. These conditions have caused injuries to numerous Dulaney players, Physical Education students, members of our allied sports programs, and visiting teams playing at Dulaney.
Dulaney's track has been worn down to a THIN layer with multiple divots where the track has completely worn away. This track is used every day by the Physical Education department, by the Special Education department, by our athletic teams, and by the community. People are continuously tripping on the holes or sliding as they run due to the crumbling surface.
All of our teams have inadequate storage for equipment and personal belongings. Our locker rooms are unsafe, with limited areas to store and lock personal belongings, to change for practices, or even to use the restrooms. The lack of locker rooms leaves our practice equipment out in the open, and there have been numerous occasions in which student-athletes' bags are rummaged through and items stolen. We don't even have working showers!
If you ever come to a physical education class, you will find hundreds of students having to share only one gym in extreme heat, with no working bathrooms, no showers and minimal lockers to store anything. Our elective classes have to use a weight room which is completely unventilated and located down a stairwell with only one way in and out. Oh, and some days we have a great view of the outside, as the plexi glass windows have fallen out of the wall in the locker rooms.
This is UNACCEPTABLE! By no standard are our fields, facilities, and track remotely safe for over 1,100 student-athletes, hundreds of Physical Education students, visiting teams from all over the state of Maryland, and our active community at large. We need to advocate with the Baltimore County Executive and Superintendent for safer conditions.
Dulaney has the largest athletic program in the entire county, with a long standing tradition of achievements - 31 State Championship teams, 80 Individual State Champions, 43 State Finalist teams, 202 Regional Championship teams, and 250 Baltimore County Varsity Championship teams....EVERY DULANEY STUDENT-ATHLETE, PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENT, ALLIED SPORTS PARTICIPANT, VISITOR AND COMMUNITY MEMBER DESERVES A SAFE FACILITY!!!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
March 14, 2016
March 13, 2016
We are approaching 250 signatures and need to hit this goal before scheduling our meeting with the county board. Post the link on your Facebook wall right now. Text three people and tell them to sign today.
March 12, 2016
The momentum behind our push for safer athletic facilities is undeniable. Take five minutes to email the Baltimore County athletics office and demand they acknowledge these hazardous conditions. We need to keep this energy moving toward the decision makers.
Reached 100 supporters
March 12, 2016
70 Comments
Our kids currently use Dulaney's track and property for Mighty Milers practice and will eventually be students at Dulaney. Our students and community need better facilities for the safety and growth.
On April 10 I will be attending the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at my Alma Mater, Hereford High. I am perplexed that one school can receive exuberant funding for a substantial renovation yet it's neighboring school does without the most common upgrades. Dulaney has been left in disrepair- UNACCEPTABLE.
The student athletes work very hard and they deserve the same facilities as our other county schools have enjoyed. These other school have advantage over ours due to the conditions they have the pleasure to practice on verses our old in poor condition fields.
I go Towson High School, and although Dulaney is our biggest rival, it can't be a competition without equal fields. Towson just got an excellent turf field, so a school similar to ours should as well. Good luck on your petition! #TGOD
I went to Dulaney four years ago and it wasn't this bad but I can only imagine what it looks like now. I felt dirty just being in the locker rooms. Please help Dulaney!
New school for our kids . Please
I can't believe they still did not address this problem already. Please clean the facility and provide good field and practice room for the sake of students and athletes' safety!
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Please Support Our Cause!
Dulaney High School proves every season, year after year, that we deserve better facilities, fields, and a track. We have made multiple requests for tasks as simple as reseeding our fields or fixing the showers, but each time we are denied by Baltimore County.
The fields our teams practice and compete on are extremely unsafe! They are uneven, with little or no grass, and littered with exposed rocks and massive divots. These conditions have caused injuries to numerous Dulaney players, Physical Education students, members of our allied sports programs, and visiting teams playing at Dulaney.
Dulaney's track has been worn down to a THIN layer with multiple divots where the track has completely worn away. This track is used every day by the Physical Education department, by the Special Education department, by our athletic teams, and by the community. People are continuously tripping on the holes or sliding as they run due to the crumbling surface.
All of our teams have inadequate storage for equipment and personal belongings. Our locker rooms are unsafe, with limited areas to store and lock personal belongings, to change for practices, or even to use the restrooms. The lack of locker rooms leaves our practice equipment out in the open, and there have been numerous occasions in which student-athletes' bags are rummaged through and items stolen. We don't even have working showers!
If you ever come to a physical education class, you will find hundreds of students having to share only one gym in extreme heat, with no working bathrooms, no showers and minimal lockers to store anything. Our elective classes have to use a weight room which is completely unventilated and located down a stairwell with only one way in and out. Oh, and some days we have a great view of the outside, as the plexi glass windows have fallen out of the wall in the locker rooms.
This is UNACCEPTABLE! By no standard are our fields, facilities, and track remotely safe for over 1,100 student-athletes, hundreds of Physical Education students, visiting teams from all over the state of Maryland, and our active community at large. We need to advocate with the Baltimore County Executive and Superintendent for safer conditions.
Dulaney has the largest athletic program in the entire county, with a long standing tradition of achievements - 31 State Championship teams, 80 Individual State Champions, 43 State Finalist teams, 202 Regional Championship teams, and 250 Baltimore County Varsity Championship teams....EVERY DULANEY STUDENT-ATHLETE, PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENT, ALLIED SPORTS PARTICIPANT, VISITOR AND COMMUNITY MEMBER DESERVES A SAFE FACILITY!!!
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
March 14, 2016
March 13, 2016
We are approaching 250 signatures and need to hit this goal before scheduling our meeting with the county board. Post the link on your Facebook wall right now. Text three people and tell them to sign today.
March 12, 2016
The momentum behind our push for safer athletic facilities is undeniable. Take five minutes to email the Baltimore County athletics office and demand they acknowledge these hazardous conditions. We need to keep this energy moving toward the decision makers.
Reached 100 supporters
March 12, 2016
70 Comments
The field there now is gonna break ankles and cause a law suit that will cost the county much more than installing a turf field, let us play...on turf
Our kids currently use Dulaney's track and property for Mighty Milers practice and will eventually be students at Dulaney. Our students and community need better facilities for the safety and growth.
On April 10 I will be attending the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at my Alma Mater, Hereford High. I am perplexed that one school can receive exuberant funding for a substantial renovation yet it's neighboring school does without the most common upgrades. Dulaney has been left in disrepair- UNACCEPTABLE.
The student athletes work very hard and they deserve the same facilities as our other county schools have enjoyed. These other school have advantage over ours due to the conditions they have the pleasure to practice on verses our old in poor condition fields.
I go Towson High School, and although Dulaney is our biggest rival, it can't be a competition without equal fields. Towson just got an excellent turf field, so a school similar to ours should as well. Good luck on your petition! #TGOD
I went to Dulaney four years ago and it wasn't this bad but I can only imagine what it looks like now. I felt dirty just being in the locker rooms. Please help Dulaney!
New school for our kids . Please
I can't believe they still did not address this problem already. Please clean the facility and provide good field and practice room for the sake of students and athletes' safety!
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The field there now is gonna break ankles and cause a law suit that will cost the county much more than installing a turf field, let us play...on turf