Wednesday, Sept 21

In today's paper, there is an article about education and nutrition that I found to be pretty interesting. The article, "Recess Is Making a Comeback in Schools", discusses how in Chicago, schools have voted to add thirty minutes of recess back into the school day. The thing that really shocked me was that recess had been taken out in the first place. I come from a family of educators and my father is a PE teacher. He absolutely loves his job and he works hard to make sure that the kids at his school exercise and understand nutrition. He often goes out during recess and plays games with students or supervises games, and every time he hears of schools thinking about taking away recess, he gets really frustrated. In this article, I do like how the reporter explains that as of November Chicago's Department of Public Health will require that children in school spend less than sixty minutes watching TV per day and at least sixty minutes doing a physical activity per day. The Department of Public Health is also paying close attention to the snacks and lunches served at the school and brought from home, hoping to help families and children develop healthy/healthier lifestyles. All in all, I found this article to be pretty interesting and, as I mentioned earlier in the week I was hoping for something a little lighter or positive, and this article has a lot of hope in it.