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[quote=Anonymous]I think it depends on the child. My Mom is an Elementary school teacher, has been for...I don't know how long and very very rarely does withhold recess for particular students. If those students need it. This year she has a child in first grade with a very troubled family background who does not at all belong in a classroom yet - but she has to deal with him. She sometimes uses no recess for him to spend one on one time with that child only, to teach him things he doesn't learn with 25 other kids in the class. She doesn't really use it as a punishment - more as an educational tool that allows her 20 minutes of one on one time she otherwise never gets with him. And he is benefiting immensely from it.

So...IMO teachers should never withhold recess for the whole class. Teachers should never withhold recess as a punishment. But in certain cases it may be useful for a teacher to stay in the classroom with one particular student...as long as done with an educational approach and not just to punish the student.[/quote]

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