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Why Are Schools Eliminating Recess, and What Are the Impacts?

Why Are Schools Eliminating Recess, and What Are the Impacts?

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Steve Nuzum
Aug 17, 2024
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I taught sixth grade for two years in Southeast Richland County. During that time, I only saw my kids get to spend time outside a handful of times, during school-wide events like field day.

On every “normal” day of the school year, those sixth graders left class with their teachers in the late morning, marched down to the lunchroom in lines, cued up to get their lunches on Styrofoam trays, and then sat at crowded lunch tables with built-in plastic seats, beneath harsh fluorescent lights, until it was time to march back to class.

I imagine Sisyphus could relate.

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