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Petition to Bring Back Traditional Games to South Elementary School Recess
To/Against/For: By the Parents of South Elementary SchoolWe feel that the opportunity to play Tag, as well as Soccer and Basketball Games is deserved by the students of South Elementary for a variety of reasons, including:
• These activities allow for more choices and more styles of play on recess, better accommodating the needs and interests of ALL children.
• With proper guidelines and supervision, these activities can be safe, fun, and exciting for children, adding to their enjoyment of the school day.
• They allow students an opportunity for cardiovascular fitness each day of the school week.
• Students can benefit during sporting situations by working together, helping and teaching one another, and utilizing conflict resolution skills to solve their own disagreements when they arise.
• These games encourage students to leave the densely populated blacktop area of the school, to better utilize the grassy areas of the playground
According to the NATIONAL HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY GUIDELINES FOR SCHOOLS, schools should “provide a variety of opportunities for physical activity in addition to physical education, that meet all students' needs and interests.” They should “offer a diverse selection of competitive and noncompetitive, structured and unstructured activities during school recess”.
Recent Comments
| Name | Comment | |
| Deanna and Randy Weidner | Please allow the kids to play these games. The kids need to be able to burn of all their energy. They enjoy playing these games! | |
| Steve Hall | Isn’t this just common sense? | |
| Sarah Fier | Please let them run and play! | |
| Patrick O'Berry | I loved playing basketball and soccer, as a kid, at recess. I don't see what the problem could be. Let them play! | |
| Kathy Lichte | Please let the kids play! The playground is an important classroom for the children physically and socially. | |
| Joan Olson | Children need the pyhsical activity to achieve optimal health and well being. Let them be kids and play! What message are we sending about the powerful effects and benefits of combining good nutrition and regular exercise. | |
| Keith nelson | PLAY BALL! | |
| Theresa kulik | The kids need to play, solve conflict, learn to share, and release there kid energy, so they can better learn in the classroom. Our kids need to be able to play.Children are not given the time to be kids any more. | |
| Melissa Savage | Thank you I have been trying to get others to do this for years! Now I need to get the parents at Bernotas to do this too, they have even stricter rules for the junior high kids and no play ground. | |
| Tricia Hall | Let the kids play! I would say more about this issue but all of the previous signors have very eloquently stated all that I would have. |
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