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The Bee
11/25/2009
When Grout Elementary School Principal Susan McElroy suggests that children don’t know how to play anymore, her view is based on years of watching kids outside on playgrounds during recess. McElroy has worked in education since 1983.
“Over the years, it seems like kids have less of an idea about how to get games started,” McElroy told THE BEE from her office at 3119 S.E. Holgate Boulevard, in the Creston-Kenilworth neighborhood. “I'd see kids on the playground standing around and, maybe, doing a little bit of chasing.”
And, if conflicts arose amongst children, she says they often didn’t know how to solve them, and carried those resentments back into the classroom.
