Recommendations made by the American Academy of Pediatrics:

►Recess should be considered a child’s personal time, and it should not be withheld for academic or punitive reasons.

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►Recess should be long enough and frequent enough to allow students to “mentally decompress.”

►Recess shouldn’t be used as a replacement for physical education. Unlike a PE class, recess (particularly unstructured recess) provides the creative, social, and emotional benefits of play.

►Recess should be safe and well supervised.