Spencer Taylor describes his high school experience as a dark time, rife with detentions, suspensions, and over-medicated peers who acted up because they, too, couldn’t sit still in class all day.
“You would have maybe five minutes to go out and see the sun,” the Michigan native recalled. “We just needed to run around. We just needed to get all our energy out. … I barely graduated.”
Fifteen years later, Taylor released a documentary about a similar problem affecting millions of U.S. students, “The Death of Recess.”
He researched laws and policies across the nation and visited schools across several U.S. states and Europe. He snuck into a national teachers union annual meeting to understand why so many competing interests continually overshadow conversations about school recess time….