onlineclasses.orgFinnish law mandates that for every 45 minutes of instruction, students must get 15 minutes to play.
Finns place a lot of value on free time and play. By law, teachers must give students a 15-minute break for every 45 minutes of instruction.
It's a different story in the US where kids typically get less than half an hour of recess every day.
This "deficit of play" for US students may lead to additional anxiety and other mental health issues, the psychologist and research professor Peter Gray has written.