What is developmentally appropriate when children ... holding hands, the warmth of a lap—are lost. We are separated from our students, and they from each other, unable to learn through communal ...

Coghlan Fundamental Elementary School administrators wrote that students were no longer allowed to engage in "hands-on play" during recess. Specifically banned activities include "tag, holding ...

"We had a few children who had been injured on the playground and we felt that as young as they are, we needed some time to teach them how to play safely." She says even holding hands in a school ...