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I don't understand all of these complaints. Is the solution to difficult coursework to do away with lessons? Why are physical challenges treated so differently
by fromthestart 8y ago
I don't understand all of these complaints. Is the solution to difficult coursework to do away with lessons? Why are physical challenges treated so differently from mental difficulties? Sure, not everyone is athletic, but the fact that not everyone is studious and intelligent is not a reason to avoid encouraging people to be so by sending them to school.
I think what we really need is a serious, rigid, disciplined curriculum in PE. That probably doesn't involve team sports so much as learning to exercise for fitness and self improvement, totally different from the half-assed gym classes that we have in the US now.
Bullying is a symptom of other problems and is not an argument against good physical education. Perhaps if ours hadn't turned into such a sensitive, coddling culture, we wouldn't have a 40% obesity rate[1].
1.https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html