Dawn over Marblehead. Anyone who can remember grade school can remember how hard it was to sit still and no talking. Recess gave relief, you could run around, talk, shout, play ball games. All practicing parents know how hard it is to get young children to sit still. Young children are bubbling over with energy and they have to work it off by running around and shouting.
To run an effective grade school, you have to let the kids outdoors for recess to let off steam. Otherwise the kids are just too bouncy to absorb any kind of learning. Back in the day, we got two 20 minute recesses every day.
Modern "educators" think recess is a waste of time, and they have been advocating no recess schools, keep the kids noses to the grindstone all day.
According to a piece in today's Wall St Journal, some "educators" have wised up and are recommending a whole hour of recess every day.
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