See all jokes aside you guys don’t understand the argument.
No one said activities aren’t important. For example my kids are in basketball, soccer and gymnastics ( it’s raping my wallet BTW) my stance is that recess is not necessary. kids already spend most of the day outside after school anyway. On top of various sports program/ summer camps. Anything you can supposedly learn from recess is open to your child through various activities in or outside of school.
The point is, all of that shit is organized play. Kids need to be locked up in a room together and just bounce off of each other for a few good minutes. When you have an authority figure even present, things get all out of wack and prevent kids from the same sort of imaginative play that they are capable of on their own.
Any possible joke aside, overloading a children’s after school schedule leaves them little stuff for regular play and creates stressed out adults. There are parents that try to get their kids to do everything and the kids do all except be kids.
It may be working out for your kids but it isnt a good blanket solution. Especially when you have parents that cant afford having their wallets raped.
That’s the thing tho. It’s not overloading. You do activities your kids want to do…so the pressure is never there to begin with.
I’m not going to get into expenses BC that’s another discussion in itself.
Another thing. You guys make it seem like there’s a Ben Stein teacher in front of kids making them read from a textbook. It’s why I feel most if you dudes are just talking out of your ass. Your kid needs breaks to process everything. Yea, breaks are important and do happen. But full on naps? Can’t cosign that. Teaching is very hands on nowadays and the teachers keep it fun and make various games out if it.
Chairman Epidemic is running that real life prison school. Except all the male students are his male offspring, and there’s no female students only his concubine guards.
No time for recess when there’s a daily battle royal in the courtyard to decide who’s the most fit to inherit his kingdom once the old man kicks the bucket.