Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~Unsupervised play doesn’t seem like the sort of thing you need to build schools and hire teachers in order to accomplish.
~Without recess, schools wouldn’t need to spend all that money on play equipment.
~Recess is just like babysitting, and not really that since it’s barely supervised or not at all.
~Can’t kids play on their own?
~Why do you need gym class, after-school sports, and recess?
~Isn’t recess what happens after school?
~Some kids find recess terrifying, especially with fights, bullying, teasing, and other social struggles.
~In problem schools, discipline is a primary issue, but recess is deliberate chaos and a massive disruption to what fragile discipline and order might have already been successfully established that day.
Links:
Recess (Wikipedia)
Is recess necessary? (Wash Post)
AZ Leg considers mandatory recess (AZR)
HB 2408 (Mandator Recess) (AZ Leg.gov)
The value of play part 1, part 2 (Psychology Today)
The serious need for play (pdf) (Scientific American)
No child left out of the dodgeball game? (CNN)
Recess: it’s indispensible! (NAEYC)
Importance of play in child development (Childhood Education)
The right to recess, quotes (Auburn)
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