from Playborhood Palo Alto / Menlo Park

Elementary Schools Are Enemies of Play

Posted: 06/05/08 01:06 AM

Young children have always had to deal with a sharp decrease in their free play time as they transitioned over a couple of years from no school to elementary school, which they attend about seven hours a day. 

However, in decades past, schools recognized that children of that age need a lot of play to develop appropriately.  They had ample recess breaks with free play every day during the school day, and they let children leave school behind them every day when they went home.

In recent years, though, elementary schools have become enemies of children’s play.  Many are working to eliminate play at school recess and to eat away at the small amount of play time children have at home by assigning more and more homework. 

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by Mike Lanza

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