Steve Gall has some success with his recess bill

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by David Safier

Steve Gall didn't get everything he wanted, but he says it's a start. From Steve:

I want to thank everyone who supported the recess amendment to HB2725 Education Omnibus Bill. It passed the House and the Senate almost unanimously yesterday and Governor Brewer will sign it into law. The amendment states that all school districts and charter school boards must have open hearings on their elementary school recess policies and if they adopt a policy they have to have 30 minutes of daily organized recess.

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5 thoughts on “Steve Gall has some success with his recess bill”

  1. Let’s not dump on parents – many of whom are forced to work two jobs just to keep a roof over their families’ heads and food on the table. Society – the whole community – has a problem when families need help and the community has to step up to the plate. Steve could sit back and enjoy a peaceful retirement – play a little tennis, play a little golf – but he has chosen (notice the word and the concept – CHOSEN) to be a part of the community, to look around and see where his talent could best be spent to help – not to curse the darkness but to light a candle!!!!! I’m sick and tired of dumping on parents. I was for many years a single parent and it’s hard, hard work! Every bit of help I got, I appreciated and the help came from people in the community who considered it a privilege to help!

  2. Hi Patt:
    I definitely agree with you about the school is not a fix all. But it certainly can contribute to this problem. Many parents of today are irresponsible and selfish. The kids need positive direction and good role models. Sometimes the teachers play this role because the parents are nowhere to be found. This is a very serious problem and it is going to bite us in the ass if all parties don’t do their job! Some Arizona schools are already providing daily physical activity but I’m concerned with the schools in the poorer neighborhoods where poverty and child obesity exists.

  3. I don’t disagree that exercise is important. I don’t disagree that organized recess has benefits. I do disagree with the school being the fix it for all things that have to do with a kid. Now we have to prevent juvenile diabetes too? Wouldn’t those parents that we can’t rely on anymore, have something to do with that?

  4. Hey Patt:
    Get real! All the research says that the recess breaks make the kids more focused, better behaved and better students! We can’t rely on the parents anymore! I have run an organized recess program in a TUSD elementary school. The results were the same as the research—-the students improved their academics! 5 1/2 hours of instructional time is ridiculously short. However, many teachers include these recess breaks as part of the curriculum. Do you want smart kids that are overweight and costing our country millions of dollars in treating juvenile diabetes?

  5. Let’s get real. In a perfect world, this would be important and salient. In an AZ education day that has 5 1/2 instructional hours, 30 minutes is too much time, for something that parents can promote and carry out. Do you want the children to be able to read and do math or run and play? Do you want teachers to teach children to read and do math or to run and play?

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