Getting Permission To MD At Active Schools Question

I think, if I was told no at a school, my first comment will be " Oh. You stopped using our tax money to pay you salleries & upkeep ?? OK, I'll have to stop by the next school board meeting, & thank them personally :) . when will it be ?? ;D "
 

Sonja Marie,

I just went to the following website:

http://www.vashonsd.wednet.edu/

I gives the guy's name you need to contact. I don't think you will have any trouble getting the ok to MD. Just stress that you will be removing trash and possible harmful objects each time you sweep the area.

Have you done any research on the history of the island? I bet there is some very good hunting sites near by. Try places where others don't hunt. Places that are harder to get to or harder to work. The easy places are worked hard. Many won't put in the extra effort and they miss out on some nice finds.

Just my 2cents worth.

GH

gunny
 

Public schools are public property like federal lands and national parks are. ?When you can detect the mall in D.C. or the grounds of the Capitol bldg lemme know! ?The school district owns the property and administers it. ?Not my opinion, court rulings, you have no "right" to be on school property period. ?Many of the school districts in some parts of this country will have you hauled off if you walk on their grounds. ?We have the second biggest district in Illinois here, and they are bureaucrats to the nth degree, but they either have not considered or do not consider md'ing an issue yet. ?Perhaps because no one has brought it up. ?These are weekend huntsites and the grounds people have no problem with it when they see me there. ?I've hunted the school in my backyard with some of the teachers (who we've done daycare for) and a few of the principles there, they had the usual, non-bureaucratic passing curiosity and I'm happy to leave it there. ?No need to bring up liabilities, questions of authority or permission. ?If you question your own authority to be there or not and leave the decision to others, you'll be left hunting your own yard soon enough.

Schoolyards, like the Forest Preserves in my county, are considered private property by the beings that administer them and they have the weight of the law on their side until new people take office. ?When, as in the case of the county FP, they say detecting is prohibited, it's a problem. ?The schools however just say no trespassing and leave the interpretation of that up to the neighbors and the folks in the school itself. ?Never had a problem in a school in this yet, probably won't. ?Let sleeping bureaucrats lie.
 

Sonja...where abouts are you?? Just wondering when I saw that you were on an island. I have a son stationed at NAS Whidby. You close to that?

Dave
 

Dave,

I'm on Vashon Island, never been to Whidby not sure how close it is.

Sonja Marie
 

Ok this is just funny!

I called the school adminster's office and talked to someone in the office and asked if I could metal detect on school property. They said they'd check and get back to me.

An hour later I called again and she's talking about the things you walk into when you go in and out of the library and then I realized she thought I was talking about something else entirely. And I explained what I meant and she was OH OK no they didn't have a policy against that as long as it was after school hours and I covered up any holes and if I found something that required a lot of digging to talk to someone in maintainence before trying to dig it up.

So I think when my niece gets home from school that will head up to the high school which is closer then then other 2, though all 3 are within a very huge block.

Tomorrow is half day for her which is even better time wise!

Sonja Marie
 

Sounds like you have good people there. Around here it's hard to get anyone on the phone who answers anything wihtout a lawyer present. Good hunting and show us the goodies too!
 

Stoney,

See my post under Today's Finds :D I need more time there!

Sonja Marie
 

Sonja,

Ya haven't responded to any of my emails yet, but if you'd like I'd be
happy to hop the ferry over and we could hit some of the schools
together. Same for Spotz this summer... Always looking for somewhere
new to hunt. And just for the record, you can also hit ANY of the schools
in Tacoma with no trouble. Been doing it for many years.

Dave
Zommbee
[email protected]
 

Dave,

The last email I got from you was saying that Spring or Summer would be good and to keep in touch but beyond that nothing else. Did you send more? I'm definitely not ignoring you if that was the only one, just haven't figured out a day for the get together.

I think that would be fun though getting to Tacoma is harder then Seattle, less buses to the ferry dock and less ferries :P Also I don't drive so we'll have to figure what to do about that.

Sonja Marie
 

Sonja, I hunt schools both old and new all of the time but only on weekends when school is out. I hunt the playground equipment, sports fields, broadjump pits, around large shade trees, along the main sidewalks, and anywhere people congregate. If you drive by a school its pretty easy to see where the kids hang out and also where they sit before and after school. I also look for places where guys have informal weekend soccer or football games because they usually play in street clothes and are less likely to take off all of their rings, jewelry, etc. before playing. I then go back and hunt those areas thoroughly.

I know you are probably tiring of hunting your own yard by now but you could ask your neighbors to let you hunt their yards with a promise to be careful digging. When I get permission to hunt in yards that are well kept I am very careful and do not dig any big holes even if it means passiing up some signals. One yard leads to another because people will see you detecting and ask what you are doing and often offer permission to search their yards without even having to ask. They will sometimes tell you about a ring they lost or something else valuable and solicite your help in finding the item and I always try to help but ask that they give me permission to hunt the yard for other things as well. I've never been refused given that set of circumstances. Good luck! Jim Cal
 

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