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Parents and advocates press CMCSS for middle-school recess and compliance with 90-minute physical-activity law
Summary
Parents, educators and the nonprofit Say Yes to Recess urged the Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board to require unstructured daily breaks for middle schoolers and to verify district compliance with a state law requiring 90 minutes of weekly physical activity.
Multiple parents, teachers and advocates urged the Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board to expand unstructured break time for middle school students and to verify the district's compliance with a Tennessee law that they say requires 90 minutes of weekly physical activity.
Rachel Bush, a parent who said she has three children in the district, thanked the board for previous changes to elementary recess and urged the district to "plan now to include recess for all middle schoolers next year." She told the board that middle school is a time of major transition and…
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