Evidence Shows Children Behave Better When They Have Recess

Loss of recess might be one of the more common punishments teachers dole out to try and correct problem behavior, but decades of evidence indicate that actually has the opposite effect. For the first time in its history, the American Academy of Pediatrics released an official statement about recess, and in it, the coalition of doctors argued unstructured free time offers roughly the same benefits for little kids as changing classes and socializing for a few minutes does for high schoolers.