- Target:
- Benton Grade School
- Region:
- United States of America
- Website:
- www.naeyc.org
For true learning to take place, children must first learn to dream, to imagine and to inuire.
Our children deserve a chance to play and relax during the school day. Learning to make friends and use your imagination is every bit as important as learning Math and English. Recess 'recharges the battery' so children return to the classroom ready to learn. Recess gives children the freedom to independently learn and practice everyday skills such as communication, sharing, respect, resolving conflict, cooperation and problem solving. Recess also gives the kids a chance to develop and improve motor skills.
Through much research, physical activity has been proven to reduce the risk of various diseases, improve test scores, and build self-esteem in children. However, physical education at the elementary level has seen a decline in recent years. When this occurs, elementary students suffer physically, as well as socially and academically.
Please help us let or kids be kids and keep recess in school!
We understand that the goal of Benton Grade School administrators is to provide the best possible education for our children. We appreciate their efforts and recognize the complexities of the public education system.
However, we feel that eliminating recess on one or more days per week in order to increase instruction time will not improve the education of our children and is ultimately counterproductive to the goal of developing our children into well-rounded, healthy, creative and productive citizens.
Well-timed recess is much more likely to have a positive impact on learning and will benefit our children in important other ways.
We, the undersigned, petition the Benton Grade School Board of Education to establish a policy to ensure a minimum of one daily scheduled recess period for all students in Benton Grade School.
Recess should be a period of supervised, unstructured play time held outside whenever possible and provided at a time that serves as a break in the students’ instructional day.
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The Recess is a right! petition to Benton Grade School was written by Jonna Rolla and is in the category Students' Rights at GoPetition.