Thursday, May 4, 2017

Texas School Triples Recess Time, Cures Attention Deficit Disorder!

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If you had not noticed, our public school system has almost entirely deleted recess and turned PE into a military boot camp.

One school in Texas uncovered one of the remaining people in the world with common sense, put recess back, and made an AMAZING discovery!

It worked! Kids started having better attention spans, were better behaved in the classroom, and were learning more!

As I have been SCREAMING this for years, it comes no surprise to me. I knew this already. It is the administrators of our public schools who are yet clueless on this issue.

According to Today

“…the Eagle Mountain Elementary in Fort Worth, Texas, has been giving kindergarten and first-grade students two 15-minute recess breaks every morning and two 15-minute breaks every afternoon to go play outside. At first teachers were worried about losing the classroom time and being able to cover all the material they needed with what was left, but now that the experiment has been going on for about five months, teachers say the kids are actually learning more because they’re better able to focus in class and pay attention without fidgeting.”

The key to the success of the program is ‘unstructured play’ four times a day to break up the physical and mental monotony of the classroom, allowing developing minds and bodies to constructively use their energies, so that their may be more effectively applied in learning.

While administrators in schools trying the program initially thought it would negatively affect testing results, the results have proven that the opposite is in fact true, which is in line with how the American Academy of Pediatrics sees playtime.

The American Academy of Pediatrics agrees, calling recess:

“…a crucial and necessary component of a child’s development.” Studies show it offers important cognitive, social, emotional, and physical benefits, yet many schools are cutting down on breaks to squeeze in more lessons, which may be counterproductive, it warns.”

Medicating restless children for them to better fit in to a dumbed down education system is a grave mistake, criminal even. Programs like these desperately need to be implemented nation wide.

Dr. Debbie Rhea, creator and director of the Liink Program said:

“You start putting 15 minutes of what I call ‘reboot’ into these kids every so often and… it gives the platform for them to be able to function at their best level.”

Check out this video for more!

Our public schools are FAILING!!!!! Liberal idiots have taken over the asylum and test scores are at historic lows.

They spend more time trying to usurp parental sovereignty and teaching their own brand of societal norms than they do reading, writing and ‘rithmatic!

They pilfer through lunches and teach sex and Islam.

Our schools spend all their time teaching to the test.

In the process, good old fashioned breaks have been flushed down the toilet.

Since World War II, inflation-adjusted spending per student in American public schools has increased by 663 percent. Spend more money… spend more money!

Yet kids still are not learning.

One fourth of our school kids graduate High School barely able to read.

It is a MESS! At least one school seems to be getting the big picture.

It is insanity folks, and lack of recess is just an example. Who in their right mind started this nonsense of removing recess? A BUNCH OF MORONS… that is who!

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