However new AMs praised the assembly's family-friendly working hours and the fact recess coincides with school holidays.

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The government plans to get the bill onto the statute book before the summer recess, giving every school in England the chance to convert to an academy and giving parents new rights to create their own schools outside of local authority control.

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The school was built into a down-slope, so the recess yard in front of the school was a flat pad of concrete below street level.

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More and more school systems eliminating recess and physical education.

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She said many students can easily achieve that goal through recess activities, gym class and after-school sports.

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They should be able to know they can go to school and focus on reading and math and recess.

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His mother, Susan Amini, recalls the day he came home from Somerset Elementary School in the third grade and complained about his recess teacher.

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He enrolled his older two children, with whom he has breakfast every morning, in a public school of 60 kids, a mix of Haitians and native Bahamians, where during recess the most popular toys are sticks and rocks.

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