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Keller ISD trustees discuss refining recess rules, weather metrics and scheduling to maximize outdoor time
Summary
Trustees and administrators discussed updating the district's administrative regulation on recess, including switching to UIL-recommended wet-bulb globe temperature metrics, addressing lunch/recess scheduling and preventing punishment-by-denial of recess.
Trustees asked administration to revisit Keller ISD’s administrative regulation for recess after rising parent concern that students were being kept inside for weather or disciplinary reasons and because transition times at elementary campuses can sharply reduce play time.
Administrators said the district currently follows temperature-based guidelines and that athletics now uses wet-bulb globe temperature (WBGT) — a more localized metric accounting for heat, humidity and wind — to determine…
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