Tannia Schreiber, during public comment on Thursday night, told the commissioners that she thought that the Lower Merion School District playing fields plan was an example of want, not need. She noted that the two middle schools, Welsh Valley and Bala Cynwyd, “have a total of 750 kids per grade…so we’re going to have on 250 seventh graders, only 250 eighth graders, 250 fifth and sixth. But look at the number of fields. This is not being designed for 1860 [the new school’ls address is 1860 Montgomery Avenue], this is not need.”
Schreiber also mentioned that she was speaking “on behalf of the trees.” “This plan,” she said, “chops down 462 trees, when there’s almost no chance that the children of 1860 will ever be able to create enough teams to use this many fields.”