Obesity is an epidemic. One in five elementary school children is obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The isolation imposed during the coronavirus pandemic made matters worse. Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools did real harm to children’s mental and physical…
pandemic made matters worse. Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools did real harm to children’s mental and physical health with draconian shutdowns and masking requirements that made for good politics but contravened both science and data regarding risks to school-age children. Let us call it what it was:Top line: The pandemic encouraged bureaucrats inside and outside school systems to act as petty authoritarians.Unfortunately, the end of the pandemic has not ended that tendency.
Children also need unstructured time to burn off energy, develop socially, and bolster physical and emotional development. While discouraging"hitting challenges" may be a good idea, prohibiting freeze tag seems both cruel and inane. Students also report that the game four square is out after the ball banged into players' knees. Soccer, the source of the visits to the nurse that sparked the administrative ban, is also out.
Nor is recess the only problem. The elementary school still assigns seats at lunch, polices distance between peers, in many cases prohibits conversation, and even tries to regulate when students can throw out their garbage. Rather than encouraging joy, Montgomery County Public Schools appears to be doing its best to reproduce the atmosphere of an East German coal mine cafeteria.a generation of children.
While most across Maryland, northern Virginia, and the District of Columbia have moved on, it is time for Montgomery County Public Schools, principals, and vice principals to understand that sometimes the best leadership is to stand back and stop regulating every second of childrens' lives and time in school. Students should be able to socialize at lunch and play at recess. If there is a scraped knee or jammed finger from time to time, that is called childhood.
Teaching a generation of children to be fat, idle, anti-social, and neurotic is not the standard to which Montgomery County’s elementary school principals should aspire.
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