Posted on 04/27/2018 12:19:16 PM PDT by BBell
Louisiana's lawmakers Wednesday (April 25) advanced a bill that would require public schools to provide 30 minutes of recess daily to students in kindergarten through eighth grade, excluding charter schools.
The House Education Committee voted 8-5 to advance House Bill 842, sponsored by Rep. Beryl Amedee, R-Houma., to the full House floor. It would still have to move through the Senate before the governor could sign it into law.
Debra Schum, Louisiana Association of Principals executive director, said the state would have to either have the Board and Elementary and Secondary Education determine that recess can be counted as instructional time, or add more time to the school day. She agreed that the latter would require more money.
Amedee said state law currently does not spell out how schools are supposed to perform at least 30 minutes of "moderate to vigorous physical activity" daily for kindergarten through eighth-grade students. She also said schools often apply that mandate toward physical education classes instead of providing recess to students.
Amedee said the "bring back recess" bill defines recess as a play environment outside of regular classroom instructional activities where students are allowed to engage in supervised, safe and active free play. She stressed it would benefit school districts statewide, adding that districts have been pressured to invest more time into test preparations to get the highest school performance scores at the expense of a student's free time.
"As the emphasis on high-stakes tests have increased, recess time has been lost or cut out completely," Amedee said.
Amedee said schools and school districts will be free to decide whether they want to use 30 minutes for one scheduled block of recess, or if students will get recess twice a day.
Schum and Amedee agreed to work together to find research and data to show BESE
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It's pretty bad when this common sense has to be legislated. I just hope they don't try to interpret instructional time as being a class held out doors. I also hope they let the boys run wild as we did so they can expend as much energy as possible.
Anti-recess is anti-boy.
Why exclude charter schools?
I liked school.
But...
I liked recess even better.
Favorite recess games:
- “kill the man with the ball”
- “smear the ____”
- tackle football with no pads
- dodgeball
None if which would probably allowed now.
Charter schools pretty much get a free hand as long as the test scores are kept up. There is no limit to the number of folks who want to put their kids in them and the discipline is generally, and I stress generally, stricter.
To get the kids to exercise more they’ll need to ban cell phones and video games during recess.
By the time I was in school mumbledepeg was a word never heard. We did carry pocket knives though and it was not a big deal.
Really? They don’t have recess in some schools? When did this happen?
What “Early Childhood Development” guru decided that young boys full of boyhood energy don’t require an outlet for such?
Oh, that’s right. Boy are supposed to be good little girls in manner and behavior now days. That’s what you get when nearly every school at every level is almost entirely run by liberal women.
Girl behavior is normal, boy behavior is defective and must be driven from them, even if it takes dangerous psychotropic drugs to do it.
But don’t children who attend charter schools need recess just as much as other children?
I’ll be even more impressed if they bring back “Smear the Queer.”
YES.
One problem with recess was when they emasculated it. The same can be said for schools in general.
Some of the best teachers both when I was a kid and when my kids where growing up were women with boys. They knew all about boys and how to handle them the right way.
nah. I hear the kids laughing and screaming from the 1-8? elementary/middle school 1/2 mi away. Most wonderful sound in the world, IMHO. What moron got rid of recess?
Recess was social time as well as good for burning off energy.
Marbles was next. My uncle owned a machine shop....and kids would give up 10 glass for my shiny ball bearing.
Yup - did the same thing during recess in the 50s.
Will do, MamaB.
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