[BBell]

As an early 70's original ritalin kid I know how important recess is. We had 3 if you count the time before school.

It's pretty bad when this common sense has to be legislated. I just hope they don't try to interpret instructional time as being a class held out doors. I also hope they let the boys run wild as we did so they can expend as much energy as possible.

Anti-recess is anti-boy.

[WayneS]

Why exclude charter schools?

[Da Coyote]

I liked school.
But...
I liked recess even better.

[fishtank]

Favorite recess games:

- “kill the man with the ball”

- “smear the ____”

- tackle football with no pads

- dodgeball

[libertylover]

To get the kids to exercise more they’ll need to ban cell phones and video games during recess.

[Jotmo]

Really? They don’t have recess in some schools? When did this happen?

What “Early Childhood Development” guru decided that young boys full of boyhood energy don’t require an outlet for such?

Oh, that’s right. Boy are supposed to be good little girls in manner and behavior now days. That’s what you get when nearly every school at every level is almost entirely run by liberal women.

Girl behavior is normal, boy behavior is defective and must be driven from them, even if it takes dangerous psychotropic drugs to do it.

[dandiegirl]

Recess was social time as well as good for burning off energy.

[MamaB]

I was in school back in the good ole days beginning 1st grade in 1950. We had a morning recess and one in the afternoon. Plus, we had free minutes after lunch. Kids need that free time. No child should be made to sit for that many hours. I saw that in my great granddaughter the other day when I was sitting in the hospital lobby. She was free to move around but she needed more. My daughter had a brain aneurysm last Friday. The ER dr did not give us any hope but people are praying all over this country and she is hanging in there. Surgery was done a few days ago to remove the clot and the swelling and pressure has gone way down. We know this is a long road with ups and downs. Please pray for her, Lynn.

[Cloverfarm]

We had three recesses as first and second-graders, then two as older kids. Sometimes our teachers would take us out on nice afternoons to play ball or red rover.

Then after school I’d go home, do chores ... climb trees, ride bikes or horses, ice skate, fish ...

I know it helped ... the ADD is strong with this one! The more time I sit at a desk the worse off I am!

[WMarshal]

This is ridiculous. How can you profitably render a child into an economic unit of the state if you let it run around like a free-range chicken and neglect to de-beak it?

[cp124]

Recess was replaced by Ridlon.