Chicago Schools Contemplate Recess After Nearly 30 Years Without It

[lovelyivy84]

While I understand the safety concerns, I still don't think they should take away tag. I do think that there needs to be more supervision from the schools. I know when I was a kid out on the playground there were ALWAYS teachers there to grab up the kids who got too rough. Where are those teachers now?

[Sophist08edLady]

Originally Posted by lovelyivy84

While I understand the safety concerns, I still don't think they should take away tag. I do think that there needs to be more supervision from the schools. I know when I was a kid out on the playground there were ALWAYS teachers there to grab up the kids who got too rough. Where are those teachers now?

Budget cuts...and remember back in the day alot of mothers would volunteer to work in the school cafeteria or playground...but now more women are working.

[Honeykiss1974]

This is bogus. I think its bad enough that many school districts have reduced or completely eliminated recess (and then wonder why kids are "hyper") but to get rid of "tag"? Kids need to run, get some pysical exercise and fresh air. And yes, sometimes kids get hurt on the playground, but it can happen just easily on the monkey bars, swings, or slide (remember going down the slide during the summer? You legs would be burnt up! LOL or seeing who could swing the highest and then jump out? LOL).

Shoot, I remember back in my day (lol) we had 3 recesses - morning, after lunch and afternoon. And our recess monitors were teachers. One half of our playground was filled with equipment and the other half was an empty field perfect for tag, kick ball, or "racing".

But anyway given the lack of socialization/activities that kids today are bombarded with (ie video games, computer, etc.) something like this that gets kids interacting with others as well as physically active is a good thing.