In our zeal to help children catch up academically after learning remotely during parts of the pandemic, and to minimize the spread of COVID-19 at schools, a leading researcher says we may be neglecting the most important subject of all — recess.
“There’s a very strong narrative that kids have gotten behind educationally, and we need them to catch up,” said Lauren McNamara, research scientist at Ryerson University’s Diversity Institute, who studies the role of recess in child development and wellness.
But schools must also give kids the opportunity to “reconnect and to heal,” McNamara told The Sunday Magazine host Piya
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