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After-School Activities: Outdoor Play
On any given day
in the school year, except very cold or rainy days, you will
find kids engaging in outdoor sports in the schoolyard.
Whether it’s basketball, tennis, volleyball or soccer; kids
are lining up and signing up to be able to participate in
sports supervised and taught by teachers.
There use to be a time when the only sport we engage in as
kids was jump rope. Today, it’s a different “ballgame.”
While their lunch time is only 40 minutes, it only gives
kids about 20 minutes of play time outdoors. But after
school, there are kids waiting in the wings for their
teacher to arrive to begin the lessons.
Some days, tournaments are held for kids who have advanced
in a particular sport and members of the school staff. It’s
a wonderful way to keep kids out of harm’s way and involved
in friendly, sportsmanlike activities that keep them healthy
and fit. The discipline they learn will help them achieve
success in their studies as well.
Sometimes during the year, all the school kids are taken to
the local park for the day and can really enjoy a great game
of baseball or football with members of the staff. During
the summer, some teachers offer sports clinics and droves of
kids sign up for the opportunity to spend additional time
with their teachers playing sports they love.
With the educational system still evolving, it is important
to continue after school activities and provide funding for
kids who, under most circumstances, would not have the
opportunity to participate.
In addition, some states have a Boys and Girls Club which
provide sports activities during the summer as well. But it
is the after school activities that kids want and need and
everything should be done to ensure these activities
continue.
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