Persuasive Essay: Should Kids Have Recess?

First of all, recess can allow students to relax and release energy. According to “Do You Need Recess?” by Mackenzie Carros, “...’Recess is the one break in the day to relax and have fun!’...” (pg. 31) When a student is relaxing or having fun, it helps them take a little break to run or even walk around. That can help teachers with students that have a lot of energy and disrupt class because they will lose some of that energy outside having fun. That is one reason why middle schools should have recess.

Over 87% of teenagers don’t get enough sleep and go to school tired. Teenagers have constant expectations to live up to, but with the amount of sleep they’re getting it can be seemingly impossible. The question has been brought up time and time again, should the school day start later? Because of the risks of not getting enough sleep, trying to keep up with their their busy schedules, and being in their adolescent years, having the school day start later would help teenagers around the world immensely.

My first reason why I think schools should have recess in middle schools recess increases concentration.

Having recess in schools gives students a chance to communicate with their peers. Time at recess with their peers

Schools all around the nation have starting times for school, that are too early for the students and teachers alike. Schools starting times should be 8:30 in the morning or later, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Sleep loss has become more common in children due to early start times which only gives them 6-7 hours of sleep a night when growing children should have 8-9 hours a night. children suffer the chronic loss of sleep due to the hormonal roller coaster that you call puberty, which only lets them begin to go into a REM sleep around 10 p.m. . It’s also been proven that adolescent children suffer from highers risks of physical health problems, mental health problems, lower test scores, missing school, substance abuse, and being in a car crash due to sleep deprivation. Students end up having to get up before 6:30 to get ready and catch the bus or walk to school, but when you have to study for hours after school, eat, clean up, participate in extracurricular activities, including sports and clubs, and do chores in less than 4 hours to get the sleep they require to be healthy mentally and physically it’s almost impossible. School should start later to better our future generations, with more sleep we could have more positive members of societies.

The children these days are being turned into lamb chops, marshmallows, and princesses because we are banning sports that use physical contact, even dodgeball. The schools should keep dodgeball as a game in PE. Dodgeball helps with children's athletic skills, letting them participate, and not playing dodgeball can make children soft. There are mainly three points on why we should keep dodgeball in schools.

“The science shows pretty clearly that taking breaks in the day makes students better able to encode memory and learn and perform academically. There’s a lot on the table in terms of the child’s health, well being, and academic success.” said Murray, former chairman of the AAP’s Council on School Health (Recess Helps Kids Learn Better in School) . This shows that breaks are essential for helping children and teens focus. If there were not any breaks, then kids’ and teens’ brains would get too overwhelmed with the information, and they would start to lose their focus, because their brains would be looking for something else to do. That is why recess is a crucial part of a normal school day!

Why kids deserve to have recess and not sit on the couch and watch tv all day when they could be outside and spend time burning enger and spending time with friends.Most kids have been on phones,tablets,tv,ipads,and why that is bad is because if kids are to spend more than,4 hours on tv they could grow up to be overweight.Also if kids watch violent shows they can show aggressive behavior.After kids show that behavior they will become addicted to tv and devices which then if you don't stop them and take it away for a while then the kids will still show that behavior.

Recess could help children have a happy and healthy

Studies have shown that even though recess is non-instructional time, it serves many important roles in the development of healthy and engaged students. Recess promotes physical activity, problem solving, social interactions, and imagination (Simon

Researchers have found that kids who have recess have improved with social interaction, and friendship. There is also a beneficial part to the teachers, because when the students get there energy out they end up focusing a lot better in class,

Most times, after lunch, kids are tired and just want to go home. This puts them in a slacking and mindless kind of mood, and makes them not want to work. If they were permitted to have a 30 of recess time immediately following their lunch, the majority of students would look forward to this intermission every day. It not only would allow time to walk, run, or play games that provide exercises, but it also allow social time for students to interact and this is highly important to middle school students. Emotionally, enjoyable social connections and exercise time with other students can rid stress among students as well. So, if there are some students with stress or anxiety it will help to alleviate such so they are better able to focus academically when returning to class. This exercise also produces chemicals in our body to help make us feel more positive and energetic. Recess would definitely improve the mood and atmosphere of our students, by making them happier and more pleasant

In the article Recess Makes Kids Smarter, it makes a case for why recess is necessary in elementary schools. It starts off talking about Nelly Torres, who is a parent at Chicago Public Schools, and how her first and fourth grader didn’t have recess until last year and even now it is only a 10 minute brake once a day. The cut back on recess was brought upon with the No Child Left Behind movement outing pressure in the school work and good scores. This made recess seem like a waste of time that could be used to improve scores. A few things are starting to support bringing recess back with the high childhood obesity rate and The First Lady talking so much about children’s exercise. The NASPE says that the children should get at least 20 minutes of recess per day.

Over two million people do not want to have all around school. I felt like all around school is just too long for some people. Now some people like all around school, but the reason I am not being that some of the students do not learn as much, high school kids may not have it and all of the others will, and it will put stress on the kids. Do you think we should have all around school? Though I do not want all around school just because it is too long.

Recess can be healthy Physically, Mentally,and Emotionally. Kids can talk and run around with their friends. A survey showed that boys were active 68 percent of the year and girls were 52 percent. Both boys and girls were active over 50 percent of the time. I think recess would be a good idea for kids to talk and play games. Recess helps us mentally because it helps us get rid of energy and helps clear the mind.