Summary Of David Elkind's Playtime Is Over

When we look back on school and our memories, we notice how our opinions and thoughts of school change but something that will never change in our hearts and minds will be the fun times and experiences that we all had as child such as recess, the trips and free time we spent with our friends. These events and experiences have left us with many useful and positive thoughts that are a huge influence on our future but this might have just been left in our past as the future is changing. According the the article “Playtime Is Over” by David Elkind we can catch a sight of the future as schools feel that there needs to be reform to the educational system and remove the bonding and learning experiences we have during our childhood in exchange for more academics which in the long run aren’t helping.
For example the text states, “Participating in the culture of childhood was a socialization process… They learned that friends could be cruel as well as kind, and that life was not always fair”. This goes to show that if we spend time on strictly academics it doesn’t allow us to build our character and learn life lessons because when are we going to need to know the academics that schools teach us. Even if they don’t remove recess just having coaches is wrong and I agree with Elkind as we all believe that it is just “over-scheduling and over-programming” children which isn’t what they need because not everything we see in school is