Reply #6: Are you sure they can?

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When I was a kid, recess was considered to be necessary physical activity to break up the school day. It might be free play -- but that only meant you were free to play in any way you chose. I'm pretty sure that if I had tried to sit out and read a book I would have quickly had a teacher telling me I had to put it away and join a game with the other children.