Word: recessing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hours without any free time, except for a 30-minute lunch. Even then they must sit at the table and cannot mill about and talk to friends. The building itself, built two years ago, does not even have a playground. When five-year old Toya Gray was asked about recess, she was puzzled. "What's recess?" she asked. Something is terribly wrong here...
According to a report in the New York Times last week, school districts across the country are eliminating the only time of the day when kids could be kids--recess. Calling it a "waste of time that would be better be spent on academics," schools from Chicago to Atlanta to Virginia have already implemented a no-recess policy, and the trend seems to be accelerating...
...argument to eliminate recess is that free, unstructured play-time has no educational value. "We are intent on improving academic performance," said Benjamin O. Canada, the superintendent of schools in Atlanta. "You don't do that by having kids hanging on the monkey bars...
...Recess, besides being a well-needed break during the school day, gives children the rare chance to interact with each other. Because many kids nowadays go home and simply watch television or play video games instead of playing outside, recess serves an even more important function. According to Juanita Gibson, a teacher at Cleveland Avenue, when children are used to playing together, they figure out a way to handle differences. But now, when kids get into a fight, instead of resolving it on their own, they are liable to seek adult intervention...
Starr ignored the fracas and focused on the goal of sending his report to Congress before the midsummer recess. In meeting that deadline, he faces another stumbling block: the refusal of White House aides Bruce Lindsey and Sidney Blumenthal to answer certain questions about their discussions with the President and First Lady because, the White House claims, the conversations are covered by Executive privilege...