Students are learning more advanced academic skills earlier than in years past and are completing work all day long, and sometimes they need a break on their own. But the teachers giving excellent instruction in the academic standards do not always explicitly teach social-emotional learning, which would help children recognize their need of a break.

Students are at school for generally seven to eight hours a day, most of which is spent in a classroom setting next to the same people. Many classrooms do not allow much opportunity to get up and move about when a student becomes restless or anxious, as anyone is wont to do.

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