Why Kids Shouldn’t Sit Still in Class
&gt; “We need to recognize that children are movement-based,” said Brian Gatens, the superintendent of schools in Emerson, N.J. “In schools, we sometimes are pushing against human nature in asking them to sit still and be quiet all the time.”<p>Exactly: Schools are bending and breaking kids so that they will be perfectly quiet persons later in life - let&#x27;s face it, not many people will do work that will require moving around in the future. Also, these kids are likely to not rebel later in life or question authorities, when their resistance has been broken early in their youth.<p>Honestly, I&#x27;m 25 and I had ample time after school to go out and play (or, in later ages, get wasted). Now, when I&#x27;m looking at young school children - what the fuck? Sitting all day in school (in Germany we call it &quot;Ganztagsschule&quot;) and after school on homework? Or in the US, where regular threads on HN show up about parents getting into all sorts of trouble with CPS because they let their kids play unsupervised? What dystopia is this?<p>And this &quot;let the kids have some movement through the school day&quot; stuff from the article. What a looooad of bullshxt, it&#x27;s the same &quot;bend and break them&quot; again. Let the children have time on their fucking own and not their entire wake day dictated from above (0800-1600 or such school, then sports being forced by their parents from 1600-1900 and then homework until midnight).<p>I&#x27;m scared for the future of our society.<p>Oh, and the biggest joke from the article is this masterpiece:<p>&gt; “We are not thinking about the child as an entire person, how physical activity helps them cope with the stresses of school and actually benefits them in the classroom.”<p>What the ...? THEN REDUCE THE STRESS THEY GET IN SCHOOLS YOU ... INSTEAD OF &quot;TREATING&quot; THE SYMPTOMS.