Parents push to boost recess' role in schools

On any given afternoon in schoolyards across the country, children can be seen and heard running and playing during a time many adults recall fondly as recess. But this treasured school-day respite is a scenario that has been all but eradicated at a growing number of schools for reasons ranging from academic to social.

Heather Mellet has heard it all when it comes to why her children can’t have more than 10 minutes of recess a day at their school in Winter Park, Fla. She’s been told art and music would have to be eliminated to make time in the schedule. She was even warned it was a bad idea because kids might get bullied.

“Kids get bullied in the cafeteria,” says the mother of two. “Are you going to make them stop eating?”

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