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I am a teacher (FCPS) and what was described above is what we do at my school. It's not at all impossible. It's not even difficult especially if you coordinate with your teaching team. There's a table set up in the front office that kids can sit and have lunch as needed. There's also a table in the cafeteria for kids who need to sit separately for behavioral reasons. We also send kids to another teachers room if they need a change of scenery of if they need to work on an activity. Our school has a definitive policy on recess and it's never to withhold it. In elementary school, homework is not counted as part of the grade and given the challenges many of our families have, we cannot penalize the kids for incomplete 'homework'. Most of it is done 'in class' or in one of the places I just described. I know you're very dismissive of the research regarding recess and it's likely your dismissive of the research regarding homework - that it's not effective or necessary at the elementary school level. Frankly, it sounds like you're burned out and should consider taking a break. [/quote]

Not the PP: but I understood this to be work that was not completed in the classroom.

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