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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are all boys schools all over the world, including some very prestigious ones here, and the teachers seem to manage fine. It’s my experience that the teachers who work with a lot of boys tend to recognize that kids have a biological need to move more and do better on concentration when they have the chance to move more. Not just boys or even young boys, but all kids. Girls tend to manage unrealistic and unnatural expectations better but that doesn’t make them any more realistic or natural. [/quote]

Oh yeah private school boys schools are exactly like public school.  The boys are going to take all the teachers attention, and I guess run around the room will be the norm.  APS schools are not built to allow the amount of movement you describe, [b]most are overcrowded and have limited outdoor space in our urban county. [/b][/quote]

This is really not true but ok.  APS has some of the smallest class sizes for elementary school in the region.  There are many things teachers can do (and some of them do it) including offering flexible seating arrangements and really just being more engaging and interesting and realistic about how little kids learn.

Elementary teachers tend to be women and sometimes women without a whole lot of classroom experience.  The educational model for this age completely favors girls and a lot of these women don't like boys and it's very obvious.[/quote]

The SCHOOLS are overcrowded, not the classrooms, so there isn’t sufficient outdoor space to rotate the school population through limited outdoor space.

And at our APS school, our class sizes are about 5 students larger than APS average, about 27. [/quote]

You could run a classroom of 8-year olds ragged with nothing more than a couple of balls and a patch of concrete. With a bit of creativity you don’t even need the balls.

But you don’t even need that. Ask the preschool teachers - just letting the kids shake their limbs and wiggle in place can get the job done. We don’t need to spend a million dollars to allow kids to move. [/quote]

Wait I’m sorry are we talking about recess time or instruction/learning time?  I’m all for more recess time — we liked how APS had two recesses in kinder for example.

But it’s not tenable now, you are looking at the capacity which includes trailers, which use field space and don’t include added outdoor equipment for the expanded population. Same reason my 3rd grader had a 10am lunch. [/quote]

Take them out and make them run laps around all the trailers and the building. You don't need field space or added outdoor equipment for this. Run them until they are exhausted and then bring them back in.[/quote]

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