With the rise in students diagnosed and medicated for ADHD, this school seems to have found a pretty simple fix.

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i read this and was not surprised in the least.

Let them run. No, really… that’s it.

While most school districts across the country are cutting back on recess time and ramping up the Ritalin, one Texas school has kindergartners and first graders sitting still and “incredibly attentive.”

What’s their secret? Their recess time has tripled.

Instead of 20 minutes of recess per day, Eagle Mountain Elementary kindergartners and first graders now get an hour, broken up into four 15-minute breaks, in addition to lunchtime.

Their teachers say it’s totally transformed them.

The kids are less fidgety, less distracted, more engaged in learning and make more eye contact.

Eagle Mountain is one of dozens of schools in Texas, Oklahoma and California testing out extra recess time as part of a three-year trial. The pilot program is modeled after the Finnish school system, whose students get some of the best scores in the world in reading, math and science.

Wait…are you telling me that allowing kids to have fun play time to channel their exuberance makes them better learners? That we should treat kids like kids instead of like tiny adults and then doping them up to eyes in meds “to help them focus”?

MADNESS!! /s

But in all seriousness though, I’m surprised that people are surprised that letting kids play for a bit is a better solution than putting them on Ritalin or something.

I saw this article on Facebook and didn’t even read it cuz i thought it would be some anti-meds crap that totally acts like ADHD isnt even real but wow this is actually good and legitimate and not demeaning

yeah i’m hella ADHD and love me some concerta but honestly… small children are just energetic and they NEED to move and play. 

“Instead of 20 minutes of recess per day, Eagle Mountain Elementary kindergartners and first graders now get an hour, broken up into four 15-minute breaks, in addition to lunchtime.”

Uh what?? Has it always been like that in America??? Just 20 min/day??

Holy shit, we had 10 min breaks every hour plus one 20 min break for lunch everyday from kindergarden to highschool!

That’s fucked up guys.. Little kids need time to run and play.. no wonder that worked…

Yeah. That’s pretty normal in the US. If you’re really lucky, you get ½ hour broken up into two 15 minute breaks.