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Monday, March 20, 2017
Marie Corfield: #Unpresidented
Marie Corfield: #Unpresidented:
#Unpresidented
#Unpresidented
My blog has been quiet of late, mostly because I've been so busy working on the resistance. And so have millions of other people all over the country.
Like the majority of Americans, the day after the election I was devastated. But my brother-in-law, who is a very wise man, predicted that something good would come out of all of this. At the time, I wasn't sure what that could possibly be. I just couldn't fathom anything good rising up from the rubble of the train wreck that was the 2016 Presidential election.
But as the weeks leading up to the inauguration passed, and reality set in, something started stirring in the wind. As soon as the Million Women's March went global, that wind became a hurricane. Since that day, there is some sort of protest on any given day in any given city around the country.
Take, for example, my own backyard: Hunterdon County, one of the reddest counties in New Jersey. Since the election, the response has truly been, as Trump would say, 'unpresidented'. People desperate for change have come pouring out of the woodwork. About a half dozen activist and grass roots organizations, including at least two Indivisibles groups, and the Progressive Hunterdon Democrats—whose first meeting drew almost 200 attendees, many of whom had never before been involved in politics—have formed and joined together to stage protest rallies and actions aimed at Donald Trump's racist policies, and Rep. Leonard Lance's far right stance on a whole host of issues. Where once the county Democratic convention would draw a small number of mostly the same people for years, today drew a standing room only crowd. My inbox has exploded with emails from groups and individuals working toward change in the Marie Corfield: #Unpresidented:
Privatizing Recess: Micromanaging Children’s Play for Profit
Privatizing Recess: Micromanaging Children’s Play for Profit:
Privatizing Recess: Micromanaging Children’s Play for Profit
Privatizing Recess: Micromanaging Children’s Play for Profit
You might hear that school recess is returning, but it might not be the recess we have come to know and love, and miss. It is not run by the school, but by a nonprofit called “Playworks: Play and Recess to Support Emotional Learning.” I have written about social and emotional learning before. Many are worried about those words and what they mean for children and schools.
Playworks isn’t recess. It isn’t a period of time where children can play on their own and dream. It’s privatized Phys. Ed. Those who understand recess will recognize quickly that coaching students on games chosen by adults, and how to act, is not recess. Often referring to the “power of play,” Playworks is not the kind of play which develops cognitive skills and empowers children.
For the record, P.E. is important on its own, but it is often mistaken for recess by those who don’t have a clue what recess involves. Sometimes principals will justify not having recess because children get P.E. However, P.E. is in trouble in a lot of places too. And if I were an elementary or middle school P.E. teacher, I’d be nervous if my school or Privatizing Recess: Micromanaging Children’s Play for Profit:
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