People seem to be all up in arms about the idea that there will be "play workers" staffed at the playground to "work with kids, to spur their imagination, facilitating and supervising play." Somehow this threatens their idea that children should be just allowed to play. The way I see it, the kids are going to play no matter what you do and I'm guessing a big part of the reason there will be staff at this playground is to make sure that the special "play props" don't "walk off." Other than that, I'm guessing the flurry of media attention is spurred by a marketing initiative aimed at raising donations to create an endowment to maintain the park (read replace the "play props" and pay for the "play workers" until they decide it's stupid to do so any more) because the Parks department will not even accept the donation of the world famous Rockwell design and the $2 million grant from the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to build it unless funds are in place to maintain it. I hope they do get the money and build the park. We need more playgrounds and all the new playgrounds they've been building have been really nice. I'm sure this one will be nice too. And I don't resent that the media is making it seem like a big deal just so they can write about it. As my son would say, "that's what me do."