Why Recess is the best part of school
I am feeling the need to stand on a soap box right now. I've recently heard that some schools are considering doing away with recess (this is an older report)because they are unable to meet all the objectives of the curriculum in a school year. I think this will only make the situation worse, it will not improve it!! Kids need unstructured time in their day, especially the 4 and 5 year olds in Kindergarten and grade one. Kids are being pushed to hard to be academic, being pushed to hard to grow up and they are missing out on their childhood. Ok that last statement may be a bit of an exaggeration, but come on, school is putting a lot of pressure on kids now a days. Now it's been many years since I was a student in an elementary school, but I remember my school days very clearly. School started at 9 am, but the buses started arriving at 8:30. I was a town kid, so I walked to school, now because I liked to play before school I would get to school jus...