aimeeandbeatles
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What do you guys think about schools cutting out recess? And the current trend to keep kids sitting still as long as possible, using Ritalin on "hyperactive" kids?
They dont give breaks, they give Ritalin
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Agent Valentine
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Is this going to turn into another one of those "the evil government is drugging us all for profits so that space lizards from Alpha Centauri can keep running the oil industry!" threads?
aimeeandbeatles
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I hope not.
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catch u on the flip scythe
salty mud
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Yeah, when the hell was this announced? It seems a bit ridiculous to me. You can't deny them some break time.
potatokiosk
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Nobody seems to support the idea of eliminating recess, so why would it happen?
Onionsoilder
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If a school doesn't give recess, they need to have their budget cut. You can't stuff a 10-year old kid in a classroom for 8 hours without any form of a break.
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8 hours? I thought most schools had seven.
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It does raise questions as to why they would take out the time for kids to be kids and then drug them when they do so when the state demands they behave.
They being stupid, reactionary bureaucrats they probably did this to solve one problem or another and then will act totally surprised when an unintended consequence arises and perform reactionary measure to counter that problem which will make more problems and so on. School are probably the mini gulags they are now by almost complete accident or at least by a subtle agenda that drives it but is not done conciously by the drones that make it move.
Do not attribute to malice to what can be explained by stupidity/ignorance.
They being stupid, reactionary bureaucrats they probably did this to solve one problem or another and then will act totally surprised when an unintended consequence arises and perform reactionary measure to counter that problem which will make more problems and so on. School are probably the mini gulags they are now by almost complete accident or at least by a subtle agenda that drives it but is not done conciously by the drones that make it move.
Do not attribute to malice to what can be explained by stupidity/ignorance.
woody60707
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I think there is no "current trend". Where would you get this idea form? As for your 2nd point, they gave me Ritalin as young child. This right here proves this isn't just some "current trend". I win /thread
Bigfoot3814
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I don't know about eliminating recess, but I sure as hell know they're trying to shorten it. My recess was down to 15 minutes in the 8th grade. Preposterous.
salty mud
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Mine's ALWAYS been 15 minutes, right from when I started school... How long did yours used to be?
Bigfoot3814
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Used to be 10 minutes for eating lunch + 15 minutes outside, then they knocked it down to a five minute lunch, then it was however fast you could eat your lunch because 15 minutes was all you got.
woody60707
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But that is normal. As kids grow up and go in to higher grades, they cut out recess. In my school, they cut recess out at the jr high level. We still had an hr of gym class tho. So maybe it just seems like it's a new thing with cutting recess.
Now if you went to your school today, would the 5th graders still have the 30mins of recess that you had in the 5th grade?
woody60707
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15mins for lunch?
At my school if you were the last in the lunch line, it may be 10mins before you could buy your food.
salty mud
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Well... we get a 15-minute break in the morning and then 50 minutes for lunch. Yours just appears to be really short.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
We get NO lunch breaks. Never did, never will (well, I'm in the last year so it's not like I care though)
Never did, never will (well, I'm in the last year so it's not like I care though)
Bigfoot3814
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Well, no matter now. That was back in Elementary/Middle School. I'm a senior so I can do whatever I want pretty much.
Well... we get a 15-minute break in the morning and then 50 minutes for lunch. Yours just appears to be really short.
Ecofarm
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When it comes to prescription drugs, I'm with the scientologists.
We had an "open lunch" in HS. We drove our cars home or to fast food (it was not a rich school, just public HS). Of course, driving home with your girlfriend at lunch was not conducive to returning for the rest of the day. There was also a cafeteria but pretty much just Sophmores (the school was 10th, 11th and 12th grades only) ate there.
We had an "open lunch" in HS. We drove our cars home or to fast food (it was not a rich school, just public HS). Of course, driving home with your girlfriend at lunch was not conducive to returning for the rest of the day. There was also a cafeteria but pretty much just Sophmores (the school was 10th, 11th and 12th grades only) ate there.
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