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> Our group, Alabama Families for Recess, began one evening in September 2017 on a front porch during a party. At this time, I had a kindergartner in public sch
by 39896880 2y ago
> Our group, Alabama Families for Recess, began one evening in September 2017 on a front porch during a party. At this time, I had a kindergartner in public school and was shocked by the lack of recess. The result was a pent-up child so tired from being on-task all day that the night ended with a tantrum or, worse, quiet crying in the tub. She simply hadn’t had enough of a break in her seven-hour day, and my efforts to take her to a playground first thing after pickup couldn’t counteract that.
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- hinkley 2y agoSchool is set up to work around parent schedules. In the midwest timing of school and vacations still align somewhat with the agricultural season. But as the world industrialized it became more about how long you could keep the kids there and from what hour to what hour. In other words, day care. If we would just simply own the fact that school is part day care part education the kids would be a lot better off. There was a daycare near my grade school that would send a bus to pick up kids from school and drive them off-site. The after school activities fill in a bit of this but we could probably do more here. Instead of torturing kids who hate crafts with craft days you could just have craftspeople and kickball people and jungle gym people. Maybe once a month or a quarter you have a switch-up day where you have to do an activity you've avoided (but since everyone else is switching you can still avoid the people who may be the reason you avoided them) just for a check-in about whether you actually hate that activity.