A couple of weeks ago, eight-year-old Liam Ramsay-Leavitt of Martinez, Calif., was swinging on the monkey bars at school. “And then I just fell on my side,” he says. “I was kind of dizzy and I had an achy head.”
It turns out that he had a concussion.
The doctor said he had to miss school for a week — there’d be no homework (he didn’t mind that too much) but also no reading, no recess, no video games, no chess club, no activity. “I would just say it’s really boring,” Ramsay-Leavitt says. “And disappointing.”
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