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...requires all religious expression to be left at the schoolhouse door." A month later Clinton had the Department of Education issue a memo to public school superintendents that appeared to expand Equal Access Act protections to include public-address announcements of religious gatherings and meetings at lunchtime and recess...
...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...
...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...
Opponents of recess also argue that alternative, more structured activities can replace recess while teaching them the same skills. Some school districts, like that in Philadelphia, have implemented "socialized recess," in which children are required to take part in monitored activities such as dance or gymnastics. In addition, more and more parents have begun to focus their children's energies on piano lessons or organized sports. Especially in affluent areas, there is increased pressure to expand the curriculum to include the arts. But while these "alternatives" can be useful, they cannot completely replace recess. The fact that recess is unstructured...