Day Thirteen: Watch Out for Erasers

So I had an eraser chucked at me today.  I was facing away from one of the students, with my back to him and I felt this tap on the back of my sweater.  I looked down and at my feet was one of those little eraser nubs from a pencil.  I turned around and said 'Are you throwing things?  Are you throwing things at me?'  He said 'I threw the eraser but did not mean to hit you.'  Then he buddy beside him said 'You threw it right at her!'  I fixed the perp. with an eveil glare hoping to scare him (actually really I was trying to think of something to say).  Since I did not actually see him huck an eraser at me I just said 'Do you think that throwing things in class is a good choice?'  He mumbled 'No.'  So I handled that ok I think.  Most of the rest of the day was the same.  They have this thing called DPA (daily physical activity) which replaces afternoon recess.  It's instructional time instead of free play and it allows the kids to go home early.  They don't have morning recess either.  They have almost an hour for lunch though.  I am not sure what I think of this system.  I think kids need to get out and run the crazies out otherwise they get unruly.  I don't like the idea of every minute of every day being totally structured like this.  It doesn't allow kids to be kids at all.