Schools cutting recess...

[overseasorange2]

Schools pressured to cut recess

Yet we worry about kids being over weight? This is stupid, even adults get breaks at work, why not kids?

that was my best subject...

 

[tim]

Here's another angle that I've been thinking on.

The whole purpose of school is to get an education. We complain when schools play babysitter and do everything but properly educate our kids. We whine when schools start telling kids what they can and can't bring for lunch in school. The purpose of a school is to educate. The overwhelming majority of recess is to go run off pent up energy. I understand that sometimes its good to get away from the classroom and recharge your battery to be ready to go again. But recess in and of itself has absolutely nothing to do with education which is the responsibility of the school. Making sure your kid gets their exercise and eats healthy is the responsibility of the parent. Many of us on here don't think its the government's responsibility to keep our kids from getting fat, yet some of the arguments on here points to that as being a reason to keep PE around.

So there is a part of me, even though recess was one of the best times of the day and is very beneficial, that says who cares? I don't see how it fits under the definition of education. I know that their reasons for doing this are probably different from mine, but to a large degree I don't see an overwhelming problem with this.

Children interact and socialize during recess. Thus, learning how to cope with each other beyond school outside of supervision of instructors, parents, or other supervisors. Building team work mentalities and the general understanding that health is mental as well as physical. There are so many positives to recess that I cant think of any reason to reduce this time.

Those who moan about lunches at schools or similar matters are those among us who b and moan about everything all the time.

 

[Burhead]

Are they going to cut out the coke machines in the schools also?

Probably not...

Man you should have went to Brighton High School. We got this little thing called snack cart that comes around each class of the day. They sell cokes, Gatorades, water, Little Debbie snack cakes, chips, donuts, snack crackers, the whole nine yards for four classes a day/five days a week. You'd think the "healthy" choice in water would be less expensive than the cokes but nope, cokes are 75 cents while plain water is $1.25.

Long story short the only thing I miss from high school is the snack cart. :cray:

 

[orangestorm]

Are they going to cut out the coke machines in the schools also?

Probably not...

They are all gone in the schools in my area.