Improving kids’ bodies and minds by requiring recess
Kids love school recess: Kicking a soccer ball, clambering up a jungle gym, chasing each other on a playground. And such unstructured play is not just fun, researchers say. Recess can help improve academic performance and reduce fidgety behavior and [...]
Georgia lawmaker re-files recess bill after governor’s veto
Under House Bill 843, public schools would have to provide recess to children from kindergarten through fifth grade every day, though it includes exceptions for days when students have physical education, field trips, emergencies or days when weather interferes. During [...]
‘Can’t breathe. Help me’ he begged as nurses laughed.
Crucial evidence used to charge three Georgia women for their involvement in a veteran’s death is in legal limbo. The [...]
Nursing Home Abuse
The recent shocking nursing home incident that happened to the Murray family in Jefferson Georgia at The Bentley Assisted Living [...]
Georgia’s governor vetoes a bill requiring recess every day
The bill, Georgia House Bill 83 would have “provide[d] for recess for students in kindergarten and grades one through five” [...]