[Fresh Wind]

In recent years, elementary schools have cut recess to spend more time preparing for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

Bullcrap. Recess has been replaced by Ritalin. Remedial classes for the test have replaced actual learning in the classroom.

Last year, lawmakers agreed that members of high school marching bands get so much exercise practicing that they should only have to take one PE class.

More bullcrap. Most band practice takes place in the band room with the kids sitting on their butts. The only ones who actually get real excercise during the marching part are the Sousaphone players.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bullcrap. Recess has been replaced by Ritalin.

That's a big part of it.

[justlurking]

Most band practice takes place in the band room with the kids sitting on their butts.

Only during concert season (the winter semester). The fall semester is almost entirely marching season.

We started on the practice field an hour before school officially began and continued through the first class period. And, we also started "band camp" a full month before most people attended their first class of the school year. It lasted all morning.

The only ones who actually get real excercise during the marching part are the Sousaphone players.

Try telling that to the people that spend August and September in Texas carrying any instrument around the practice field.