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[quote=Anonymous]We also had a lot of complaints about the chaos of indoor recess, and resorting to TV just to keep order. My kid hated indoor recess because it was loud and stressful. Eventually the PTA raised money and got some small grants to assemble indoor recess carts, with board games and art materials, that could be moved from class to class. That seemed to at least give the kids something concrete to do.

Some teachers would use the promethean board to set up little "dance parties," just to get kids moving. But the classrooms were too crowded and the supervision too fragmented to do much more than that. You can't really organize Simon Says with one supervisor floating between several classrooms, and there's not a bigger space available to consolidate.

Ours had the wind-chill-below-freezing cutoff for indoor recess, as well as Code Red air days when it was hot. But trust me, the teachers don't want the kids indoors at recess any more than parents do. Would YOU want to teach 25 kids who haven't been able to move for the last five hours?
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