Teachers often cancel recess as a punishment. A growing number of states want to change that.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. So in other words

just never let the kids run around to let off steam so they can come in energized to focus better. Or talk at lunch time so they can settle down. This "modern approach" doesn't make a lot of sense to me. But I went to elementary school in the 1950s when the teachers would literally tell us to "go out and run around and get some of those cobwebs out of your brain" or "get rid of some of that excess energy so you can stop wiggling". How can kids focus if all they are allowed to do is sit still and do some kind of paperwork? No wonder so many of them hate school.