School Recess Improves Behavior

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We seem to be both infantilizing children and simultaneously expecting them to work and behave like adults.

Though I don't know the effects (no one does), it can't be anything good for them or for society.

How can you say "I don't know the effects (no one does)" and "it can't be anything good" at the same time?

Compared with children who receive regular recess, the children who were cooped up during the school day were more likely to be from public schools... from low-income and less-educated families and live in large cities.

Perhaps there is zero direct correlation.

I just want to point out that while I haven't had a recess since middle school, I recently found out that the middle school I went to has eliminated its recess on fridays. I remember loving fridays because we had an extended recess. I am unsure how the current students are managing.

I thought all schools stopped doing recess after about 5th grade? You just move on to hour classes and get the 5/10 minute break between each one.

Now, in college, 2 hour classes means that the prof. better give us a break at the half-way point or we'll be dozing off.

I had a 20 minute break and a 40 minute break every day throughout my entire 13 years of school. This was in Australia.

I can't believe that in other countries you don't get to run around regularly at school.

i had recess through high school. it was called lunch, but we weren't confined to the lunch room. instead, we'd hang out by the picnic tables outside near some woody trees and then go down to the soccer field to play ultimate frisbee. i knew i was lucky and i loved it.

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