https://www.ajc.com/blog/get-schooled/did-anybody-expect-brian-kemp-veto-georgia-school-recess-bill/0gY0Qhg46vUfe6e114x9UL/
While Kemp agreed recess is important, he felt the bill undermined local control in education. “This legislation would impose unreasonable burdens on educational leaders without meaningful justification,” explained Kemp. (Kemp was more tactful than New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who, after vetoing a recess bill in 2016, said, "That was a stupid bill." Two year later, Christie's successor signed the bill.)
A strong push for recess is coming from parents, who contend unstructured play is vital to children’s physical and social advancement. Those parents found allies among child development researchers who say recess bolsters social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development.
Pierce said some of his classmates did not meet their reading goals and
lost recess as a consequence. “They have to sit out the whole recess
reading and I don’t think that’s really helpful and no one deserves
that,” he said.
Isn't this considered a cruel and unusual/collective punishment? This sounds way out of line.
you mean sufficient to violate the 8th amendment? I doubt that there's a single district court judge who would find that to be the case.
In 4th grade I got put in one of the advanced placement programs.
We were given packets of times tables to solve, and whenever you finished one you were immediately handed another one.
The thing is, you weren't allowed to go out to recess until you finished the packet you were working on, even if you had already completed more than your classmates or were ahead of the game so to speak. I got tired of finishing three or four of these packets and being held in for recess while people scraped by with one or two and wrote "I won't do this busy work" across the top of the one I had partially completed and went out to recess anyway.
I promptly got kicked out of the advanced placement program and that sent me down a downward spiral because I was suddenly "too dumb" to hang out with the smart kids, and also a younger smaller nerd released back into the general population. I damn near dropped out of high school my second year because I never regained my footing and the bullying was relentless. This was supposedly one of the best public school systems in the country mind you.
Shit ended up working out in the end. I've made a foothold for myself in academia and get to play with a lot of fun shit, but there were a number of kids who went through similar situations that didn't end up so well. A lot of them got into hard drugs. Some of them OD'ed. Some of them committed suicide. A number of them dropped out and never really got their lives off the ground. The downward spirals were typically caused by arbitrary decisions at an administrative level because the system prioritizes meeting arbitrary standards and values set by lawmakers instead of you know, educating kids.
I don't know about it being cruel and unusual punishment, but it is ringing some bells for me.
A good friend of mine got assigned reading as punishment by his father, and even now, he has a hard time reading for pleasure. He knows it's irrational, but he can't help but feel still that "Reading is punishment." He's made sure not to pass this mistake on to his children, who are avid readers.
the SCOTUS has ruled quite specifically that students do not have the same rights they do outside school
Can Georgia State Congress override a veto like the federal one can?
we're more focused with reversing roe v wade than we are with giving children human rights
Can confirm. Was never a bookworm to begin with, but public school pretty much ruined the medium for me. It just isnt fun to read, so if I dont have to, I wont.
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