Inglewood is gentrifying fast, but athletic field conditions are getting worse at Morningside High. 'There’s something obscene about a multibillion-dollar sports and entertainment colossus rising in a city of falling-apart schools,' LATstevelopez writes.
On March 22, the girls’ softball team was set to host North High of Torrance, and players went through their customary pregame warm-ups.“We were all prepared and psyched to play, and we were stretching,” said freshman left fielder Alexis Campos.
“The boys’ baseball field isn’t much better,” Campbell said, and it has no working sprinklers, either.“That’s the first time I’ve been to a field where we said, ‘Hey, you can’t play on this one,’ ” said Mashman, who compared the compacted infield dirt to concrete. To add to the woes, the softball team hasn’t won a game this year and lost their coach because of a paperwork glitch on his application. Coach Marcus Muhammad stepped in, but didn’t have practice Thursday when only five girls showed up, with the softball field still considered unsafe. He held a team meeting instead.
The bleachers were splintered and thirsty for paint, and untrimmed vines climbed the backstop fence and extended onto the field.He stood at home plate and hit grounders for infield practice under the roar of jets that soared overhead on their LAX landing approach. A third baseman turned his head for protection when a ball took a crazy jack rabbit bounce.
“I don’t know what they're going to do, honestly, especially with the high schools. We lack so much in resources, I’m not even sure we should be a district with high schools,” said Maria Gray-McKinley, former president of a parent-teacher association, who put three kids through the district and still has one in eighth grade.
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