When we first started unschooling, I got on unschooling.com just about every day and asked a question. My screen name was dragonfly, so these became "Dragonfly's Questions of the Day." Those questions were about unschooling as I tried to make sense of it. Nowadays, unschooling makes perfect sense and what I'm trying to make sense of is school.
Why don't middle schools have playgrounds?
I walked with my 11yo niece to a neighborhood park the other day. She joined a group of 'tweens in a rousing game of tag. Most of those kids are headed to North Middle next year, yet chose to spent a summer afternoon "doing recess," their favorite part of elementary school.
North Middle does not have a playground.
Why not?
This 9/11 Morning
1 day ago
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I blame it on the Puritans, of course. The anti-fun, Calvinist Tulip version of Christianity permeates our culture. The Bible says:
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
In Biblical terms, puberty is the end of childhood and the time to put away childish things. That's middle school. Time to get serious! No more fun, you depraved little heathens!
Playgrounds cost at least a hundred grand and the middle schools need the space for the smoking pit.
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