These people who want to do away with recess and create “peace mazes” and lead the kids around from activity to activity THINK they are being sensitive, and think they are standing up for kids, and being childrens’ advocates, but what they are really doing is KILLING all that is good and fun about being a kid. I had hours of unsupervised play as child. With me and my friends. Creating worlds, having mud wars, making up games, running through the woods, having social intrigues on the playground. I remember crying a couple of times, because of certain 9 year old tragedies, people ganging up on me, being picked second to last for kickball, whatever. My playground was not always peaceful. But it was FREEDOM.
God forbid that I should have been ROBBED of those half-hours of freedom, by adults who wanted to structure every damn minute of my short little life!
Can’t people just have some sense?
