The Full Round Development Of Child In School

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801 CD10 Parks, Schools and Pools by City Council District

There are unfair park, school, and health disparities by Los Angeles City Council District.

Thus, for example, there are .43 total acres of parks per thousand residents in District 10 (Wesson), and 57.68 in District 11 (Rosendahl) in West Los Angeles.

District 10 (Wesson) has .35 net acres of urban parks per thousand residents, compared to .35 in District 13 (Garcetti) in Central Los Angeles, and15.86 net acres in District 12 (Smith) in the West San Fernando Valley.

South Los Angeles is disproportionately populated by people of color and low income people, while the West Valley and West Los Angeles are disproportionately white and wealthy.

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The Full Round Development Of Child In School

Article by Nitish Kumar

According to a study conducted by Albert Einstein College of Medicine,Yeshiva University, School children who receive more recess behave better and are likely to learn more. The study, suggests that a daily break of 15 minutes or more in the school day may play a role in improving learning, social development, and health in elementary school children. Children who misbehave at school are often punished by having to stay inside at recess.

But the research shows that giving children recess actually helps them solve behavioral problems in class. Recess plays a critical role in school as a necessary break from the rigors of academic challenges. Recess is a complement, not a replacement for, physical education. Both promote activity and a healthy lifestyle; however, recess–particularly unstructured recess and free play–provides a unique contribution to a child’s creative, social, and emotional development. From the perspective of a child’s health and well-being, recess time should be considered a child’s personal time and should not be withheld for academic or punitive reasons.

The most obvious characteristic of recess is that it constitutes a break from the day’s routine. For people of all ages and in all fields, breaks are considered essential for satisfaction and alertness. Experimental research on memory and attention found that recall is improved when learning is spaced rather than presented all at once. Their findings are compatible with what is known about brain functioning: that attention requires periodic novelty, that the brain needs downtime to recycle chemicals crucial for long-term memory formation, and that attention involves 90- to 110-minute cyclical patterns throughout the day.

We need to understand that children also need a break- probably more frequent ones. Our brains can concentrate and pay attention for 45 to 60 minutes, and in kids it’s even less. For them to be able to acquire all the academic skills we want them to learn, they need a break to go out and release the energy and play and be social. Schools need to recognize that recess is an essential part of a child’s learning experience. At recess, students use all the things they learned in the classroom.

When they are doing hopscotch they use math skills. Kids learn a lot about social skills during recess, such as playing, sharing, being the leader, following somebody. It’s all very important. Recess may be the only opportunity for some children to engage in social interactions with other children. Because recess is one of the few times in the school day when children can interact freely with peers, it is a valuable time in which adults can observe children’s social and leadership skills and their tendency to bully and fight.

Healthy Schools question by Troy: Is it healthy for school kids to dwell on a death?
I have observed my 8th grade daughter’s msn logs and found that many kids at her school and the high school are excessively making comments about how they miss a girl who has passed away. She was a junior and many of these kids hardly knew the girl, yet they post messages, draw pictures in art class or doodles, wear t-shirts and display window stickers, etc. in memory of the deceased girl. It has become sort of a popularity thing that I don’t think is healthy. It’s been almost a year since she passed. Last night I overheard 2 high school girls talking and one of them stated that “tomorrow is” (the deceased girl’s) “birthday”. She repeated herself to make sure that the other girl heard what she said even though there was no indication that she didn’t hear it the first time. It seems as though some kids are actually competing to be more grieving than others about the girl. Am I being insensitive or is this unhealthy?

Healthy Schools best answer:

Answer by sweets
not to be rude, but u are being insensitive, it is not unhealthy at all. i have lost friends of mine when i was in high school, it is a very hard thing for a teenager to deal with, their hormones are raging anyway, the death of one of their friends makes it even worse. i dont think they are competing to see who grieves more, the deceased girl, was well liked. a good friend of mine lost a good friend of hers in school, 10 years ago, and to this day, she still visits her grave every year, as well as alot of others we went to school with, so it is a perfectly normal thing. She is only in 8th grade, she is going thru alot of changes right now with her body, and emotions thru puberty, so she is going to take it harder than us adults would. i hope this helped u understand, just put yourself in her shoes. Good luck

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