Recess Essay

Recess: It Has an Impact on Middle Schoolers Around the World.

Middle schoolers everywhere get overwhelmed transitioning through at least seven subjects throughout the day. It becomes hard to think and concentrate when you don’t ever get a brake. Today, one in every five students in kindergarten through eighth grade have obesity. This is due to not having physical exercise and recess. Day after day middle schoolers suffer from depression and obesity just because they don’t get recess. Some agree kids need recess to stay healthy and active, but others believe that recess isn’t mandatory, and it doesn't improve obesity rates and depression. Middle schoolers need recess because it lowers obesity and depression rates, and it makes transitions

When you're working non stop you can get overwhelmed and stressed out. When you stop and take a break and get active your brain feels relieved. When you get back into class after break your focus comes back. It makes it way easier to rejoin class and pay attention. Transitioning through seven subjects each day can get hard and overwhelming. Recess can fix this, and that's what people don’t understand. On page 30 of the article Do you Need Recess, “ According to Dr. Robert Murray, pediatrician and co author of “ The Crucial Role of Recess in School,” giving your brain a rest helps it work better. Moving from subject to subject without a brake can overwhelm your brain and make it more difficult to retain information.” When we are constantly learning we can’t get a break we need recess to help us hold onto information. Recess also gives us rest that the society needs to continue the day. Middle schooler tend to get stressed out and bored during the day so a break will snap them back into learning. When middle schoolers learn for a long period of time they tend to zone out and not listen to the teacher. When this happens they don’t get all other information that they need to know, so that leads to bad test scores. Think all of this just because middle schoolers don’t get a break. That's saying a lot. Also according to the article, Why kids need recess and exercise, “ According to study author and developmental pediatrician Romina Barros, M.D., their conduct was likely better because, after hours of concentration, they were able to give their exhausted brains a rest before going back to absorbing information--something many young kids can only do well for about a half hour at a time.” Even middle schoolers can’t focus for a long time. Yes kindergartners may be worse at staying still and focused for long periods of time, but middle schoolers have more subjects and longer days. When they are transitioning