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...same time, budget problems have forced school boards across the U.S. to cut back on "unnecessary" programs like art, music and physical education, while pressure from parents to raise academic standards has in many places squeezed even recess from the curriculum. Only 56% of U.S. high school students were enrolled in a phys-ed class as of the most recent survey, in 2003, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and only 28% have gym every day, down from 42% in 1991. And that's overall; the percentages among African-American and Hispanic kids are even lower...
...earliest memories of recess at grade school begin with teachers setting us loose to swing on monkey bars or climb the jungle gym; exercise was an instinctively social activity. We shoved, we kicked, we jostled, exerting ourselves in rambunctious little packs, only wandering off to be alone when our feelings or bodies were badly hurt. Even when we lined up for jumping jacks, we couldn't help glancing at the kids around us and making funny faces when they glanced back. We discharged our energy freely, chaotically, swapping our high spirits with friends and paying no attention to our pulse...
...outcome of a House-Senate conference committee to resolve differences between the two chambers on next year's defense spending. The Senate had prevailed so overwhelmingly, with the unexpected concurrence of House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin, that House leaders decided to delay until after the recess a vote on the compromise military-spending package. Most galling of all, but perhaps not surprising, the Congressmen once again displayed their chronic inability to cut major weapons systems from the budget...
...each weekday morning, the asphalt playground of Franklin Elementary School in Oakland swarms with some 900 boys and girls shooting baskets, playing tetherball and skipping rope. This large number of children are not at Franklin for a summer recreation outing. They are at morning recess in Franklin's year-round school, one of three such programs in the Oakland unified school district, and one of 394 year-round education projects that are nourishing at scattered locations in schools across the country...
...oppositeness of the thing ... Without so much as the caesura of a drawn breath I was first shouting in joy, then screaming in shock ... I had discovered in myself the double personality engendered by school: the good attentive boy in class, the raucous, unsprung Dionysian in the schoolyard at recess...