"...he laughed and said, "That's because we are better than they are.""

The Washington Post:  High-schoolers' 'recess': Benefit or brain drain?

Richard Moniuszko, deputy division superintendent for Fairfax public schools, says he knows of few such complaints. He says teachers are keeping all students on target. Struggling students need help during the school day so they can get to activities or jobs after school, or catch a bus home, he says. When I pointed out that Montgomery County, Fairfax's academic rival across the Potomac, doesn't do it that way, he laughed and said, "That's because we are better than they are."