Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 06, 2021

And Phoebe gets blacklisted as a radical five-minutes-longer sympathizer.

Now I really can’t argue with that. Thank you, Phoebe, for bringing up the important issues.

Wonder if she got scared of the main villain in Recess Schools Out due to his plan of prevent recess (and summer break) all around.

That might work better if you were talking about lunch.

I acutely disliked recess in grade school. The teachers MADE us leave the warm spot by the building and go out into the wind. Wasn’t as bad as PE though which was where the teachers encouraged the kids who were older or better coordinated to hurt the other ones with thrown balls or by tackling them to the gravel…

How far away is your swing set? or do you walk slow?

Don’t get into the minute details straightaway, Phoebe!

She couldn’t possibly debating another student on that issue. I’m sure every student would agree. Heck, I’d vote to make it two hours longer! She must be debating the teacher.

Simply: YES.

Such an important topic Phoebe! Very important!

I actually got into a similar debate concerning lunch breaks at my tech school. :)

But if you will want to add five minutes, then someone else will want to add more, then more, then more…..

Umm, recess is for exercise, get some exercise and run!

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Isn’t there some saying about all politics are local? Seems some variant applies here.

Who builds a school swingset that far from the school building?

Back in the 60s in California, we were allocated 5-minute recesses to use the bathroom and 20 minute recesses for playing. Lunch was 45 minutes, so the quicker you ate, the longer you got to play.

I would debate the benefits of extending lunch time from 30 minutes to an hour instead.