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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree that there’s too little supervision but I also work at a school and I can tell you there’s nothing we can do. We just do not have enough staff to run the place. Here’s who we have had supervising recess lately: the counselor, the assistant principal, the secretaries, the intervention teacher, and the staff development teacher. These people all have important places to be but we just don’t have enough staff.

When I was a kid, teachers went out to recess with you. But now they have to do a 1.5 hour planning block in the middle of the day every day.[/quote]

We moved out of state.  When we were at our mcps elementary school, we saw all the problems described above. They had 120 kids out with 2 paras, our kids routinely had stories of fights, bullying, and injuries. They also weren’t allowed any balls or sports equipment because the low supervision meant kids would hit each other with the sports equipment. So, 120 kids were out in an unfenced field with one play structure that about 15 kids could use.

New elementary—teachers go with their class to recess plus paras and specials teachers rotating through. About one teacher for every 10 kids. Multiple play structures on playground, organized games occurring, no fights, very few injuries.

Something is seriously wrong in MCPS…our new district isn’t “wealthy,” but, they can somehow afford to give the kids a nice recess instead of a prison yard.[/quote]

At our school they don't have balls and toys for recess because the kids damage them and the paras won't pick them up and our pe teacher got tired ofbuying more[/quote]

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