At Lawton Chiles Middle School, there used to be an event in the mornings known as Open Gym. Open Gym was when students throughout the entire school were able to come to school early, go into the gym at 8:30 AM, and play sports such as Basketball and Volleyball until school began. When the Covid-19 pandemic began, this all stopped. It was a great time to spend time with friends and improve your skills in whichever sport you wanted to play. I believe that this needs to be started up again so that students have the opportunity to socialize and improve their skills in the morning before school. This was a great thing for the school and I believe it is time for it to come back so that students have these opportunities.