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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

No more recess

This week's Mr. Teacher column on education.com is titled "Give Me a Break," and it is the story of a school year without recess. Well, 2 weeks of a school recess with only 2 days of recess, anyway. Read the full story and weigh in if your school has done anything this drastic!

3 comments:

HoodMama said...

Ok, seriously, you're my new favorite blog! Hilarious! No recess? Isn't it a civil liberty?

And thanks for ruining the whole Santa thing for me.

Melissa B. said...

I'm a high school teacher, so can't specifically weigh in. I can tell you though, that if I were an elementary school teacher, I think I'd go crazy if the little cherubs couldn't go out to play. Conversely, if I were an elementary school cherub, I would have too much energy to expend without recess and would probably interrupt your class a lot!

The Bus Driver said...

as a school bus driver... no recess=hell for us on a bus. I'd complain to the state, theres got to be some law that requires schools provide recess especially for younger grades...

a sneaky way of getting them outside is to plan a Math Scavenger hunt... or something similar. or a language code thingy that gets them to run from point a to point b to point c. etc....