Lane huffed and puffed while counting up to 30. "Oh, no," the 9-year-old said, struggling to hold the plank pose on the carpet of L.H. Tanglen Elementary in Hopkins Public Schools. From yoga poses ...

Teachers pay for indoor-recess games out of their classroom budgets, Stenzel said, and some ask students' families to help out. "One teacher I know hits a lot of garage sales," she said.

But there's a point there. Without a designated indoor space, for example, schools might just cancel recess when it's raining or snowing. Oh, and the answers to those other questions above?

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Worcester has 33 elementary schools across the city of various sizes, some of which are better equipped to handle indoor recess than others.