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'Bring back recess' bill for Louisiana public schools gains House approval
http://www.nola.com ^ | 4/27/18 | Wilborn P. Nobles III

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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TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: houseapproval; louisiana; publicschools; recess
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As an early 70's original ritalin kid I know how important recess is. We had 3 if you count the time before school.

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.

1 posted on 04/27/2018 12:19:16 PM PDT by BBell
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To: BBell

Why exclude charter schools?


2 posted on 04/27/2018 12:22:27 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: BBell

I liked school.
But...
I liked recess even better.


3 posted on 04/27/2018 12:26:17 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: BBell

Favorite recess games:

- “kill the man with the ball”

- “smear the ____”

- tackle football with no pads

- dodgeball


4 posted on 04/27/2018 12:26:47 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: fishtank

None if which would probably allowed now.


5 posted on 04/27/2018 12:34:29 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: fishtank
Back in the 40s, we used to play mumbledepeg with our pocket knives during recess.


6 posted on 04/27/2018 12:39:30 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: WayneS

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.


7 posted on 04/27/2018 12:39:43 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: BBell

To get the kids to exercise more they’ll need to ban cell phones and video games during recess.


8 posted on 04/27/2018 12:40:27 PM PDT by libertylover (If people come here legally, they're immigrants; if they come here illegally, they're invaders.)
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To: Cicero

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.


9 posted on 04/27/2018 12:41:29 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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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.


10 posted on 04/27/2018 12:42:21 PM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: BBell

But don’t children who attend charter schools need recess just as much as other children?


11 posted on 04/27/2018 12:42:39 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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I’ll be even more impressed if they bring back “Smear the Queer.”


12 posted on 04/27/2018 12:44:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: WayneS

YES.


13 posted on 04/27/2018 12:45:58 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Jotmo
You are right about the liberal women. And childless women. Worse of of all childless liberal women. They were a contributing factor to the demise of public education. I don't live far from NOLA and my kids always had recess. I think it's more of a city thing where the kids don't have recess. Lots of reasons why, some of them good reasons.

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.

14 posted on 04/27/2018 12:55:12 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: libertylover

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?


15 posted on 04/27/2018 12:58:45 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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To: BBell

Recess was social time as well as good for burning off energy.


16 posted on 04/27/2018 1:09:51 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BO)
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I was in school back in the good ole days beginning 1st grade in 1950. We had a morning recess and one in the afternoon. Plus, we had free minutes after lunch. Kids need that free time. No child should be made to sit for that many hours. I saw that in my great granddaughter the other day when I was sitting in the hospital lobby. She was free to move around but she needed more. My daughter had a brain aneurysm last Friday. The ER dr did not give us any hope but people are praying all over this country and she is hanging in there. Surgery was done a few days ago to remove the clot and the swelling and pressure has gone way down. We know this is a long road with ups and downs. Please pray for her, Lynn.
17 posted on 04/27/2018 1:20:17 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb :13:2)
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To: Cicero
Yup....my life in the 50's....and I was only 6,7,8...... Everyone had a pen knife.

Marbles was next. My uncle owned a machine shop....and kids would give up 10 glass for my shiny ball bearing.

18 posted on 04/27/2018 1:24:22 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Cicero
Back in the 40s, we used to play mumbledepeg with our pocket knives during recess.

Yup - did the same thing during recess in the 50s.

19 posted on 04/27/2018 1:32:22 PM PDT by pt17
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To: MamaB

Will do, MamaB.


20 posted on 04/27/2018 1:35:18 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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