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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure but my FCPS went out well below 32, so this isn’t even standard for the area. [/quote]

+1. There are ice and frozen puddles on every playground in cold weather climates. I would bet money the DCPS policy is based on equity concerns. They can't ensure every kid will come to school with a proper coat, hat, gloves, they don't want to make the poor kids stay inside, and they don't want vastly different outdoor recess policies in Ward 3 and Ward 8 schools. So it's a bright line rule that keeps all kids safe and doesn't ask schools to make judgment calls about what coats kids are wearing.

Funny enough, our Ward 3 DCPS doesn't have recess outdoors, but they sure do bundle kids up and take them outside during "class time." Compliant with the policy indeed.[/quote]

It's partly equity but also partly a cultural thing. The staff knows they will have dissatisfied parents if they don't go out, and different dissatisfied parents if they do, so they can't win. They don't have enough staff to stay in ratio while some kids go out and some stay in. And different people and different cultures have different ideas about what's "too cold". Plenty of people can afford adequate clothing and yet just think it's unpleasant to be out in the cold and don't want it required of their kids. [/quote]

This plus often the staff don't won't to go out when it's cold. [/quote]

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