Kevin nciso by Kevin Enciso

kenci321_2 — 2025-10-14 18:04:12 UTC

Low test scores

"In the spring of 2023, only 56 out of every 100 fourth-

Graders were doing math at the level they should be. In 2019, before the pandemic, it was 69 out

of 100. " (need citation)

Our proficiency dropped, so we need to pick it up. One way to pick it up is to have more learning time. One way to do this is to remove recess and use that time to learn.

Reason one

kenci321_2 — 2025-10-21 17:22:58 UTC

Unstructured recess is good because you can get more exercise by running around and playing games like soccer and kickball

Reason two

kenci321_2 — 2025-10-22 16:55:04 UTC

Unstructured recess helps students get better. It’s really about the school environment and how you create a healthy school

environment for the children...if children are healthy and happy, they learn better.

kenci321_2 — 2025-10-28 16:17:58 UTC

One reason why structured recess is good is that it makes you run and exercise, so they don't let you sit down at PE, and that's good because you can lose weight and it helps your legs out and they can get healther

reason three

kenci321_2 — 2025-11-05 18:18:25 UTC

Play can help kids deal with stress and learn how to get along with others. But it can also make

them smarter! In a study in 1973, scientists divided 90 preschool kids into three groups. One

group played freely with objects like paper towels, a screwdriver, a wooden board, and paper clips.

Another group watched someone use the objects in normal ways.

reason four

kenci321_2 — 2025-11-06 19:59:55 UTC

Playing also seems to help with language development. A study in 2007 gave a box of toy blocks

to kids from different families. The parents kept track of how often the kids played with the

blocks. After six months, the kids who had played with blocks did better on language tests than

the kids who hadn't. Why might play help kids do better in school?

reason five

kenci321_2 — 2025-11-07 20:09:32 UTC

Worries over the demise of play began surfacing as far back as 1961, when the International Play Association was founded in Denmark to protect, preserve, and promote play as a fundamental right for all children. But the idea became more popular in the past few decades, when many more nonprofit foundations—such as the National Institute for Play in Carmel Valley, Calif., started by Brown, and other organizations, including the Alliance for Childhood and the Association for the Study of Play—began forming to promote the value of play.

reason six

kenci321_2 — 2025-11-07 22:13:05 UTC

Most psychologists agree that play affords benefits that last through adulthood, but they do not always agree on the extent to which a lack of play harms kids, particularly because, in the past, few children grew up without ample frolicking time. But today, free play may be losing its standing as a staple of youth. According to a paper published in 2005 in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, children's free-play time dropped by a quarter between 1981 and 1997. Concerned about getting their kids into the right colleges, parents are sacrificing playtime for more structured activities. As early as preschool, youngsters' after-school hours are now being filled with music lessons and sports—reducing time for the type of imaginative and rambunctious cavorting that fosters creativity and cooperation. Free play has been sacrificed at school, too. According to a 2007 survey conducted by the Center on Education Policy, 20 percent of 349 American elementary public school districts had decreased their recess time since 2001.