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Comment on Gambling with our Future, Part 2: Implications of Removing Physical Education from Schools by redbird1021

redbird1021 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:28:05 +0000

I just want to say that reading and hearing about all of the budget cuts toward education make me frustrated. Especially, when all of the extracurricular classes: Physical Education, Band, Chorus, Theater, etc.. are the first places that administrators look to make their cuts. There are facts all over the place that show when a student spends time in classes other than the core subjects; stress levels are lowered and anxiety levels drop in students. With the lowered stress and anxiety levels, comes better focus and higher achievements in the core subjects. It is well known and documented that physical activity is good for the human body. Exercise is a key component to building strong bones, muscles, brain function, and releasing toxins, which cause stress and anxiety, from the body. Physical educators are trained to teach students how to become physically active so that they can build a strong body and mind. If there is an elimination of Physical Education, who will teach our young people how to be active in order to maintain any resemblance of a healthy life. Parents always have the excuse that they are too busy and that they do not have enough time to exercise with their children. This is just another example of why there is such a great need for Physical Education in our schools for the children. We think that obesity issues are bad now, just wait and see what will happen if Physical Education classes are cut from the education curriculum. There is way too much money ($147 billion) being spent on obesity-related health care issues in this country. One of the biggest preventives of obesity is exercise!!! When exercise and physical activity are SO GOOD for the body, why would somebody want to eliminate that from our schools. I get excited when I see families out for bike rides or walks in my neighborhood. I just wish that I would see much more of these practices all over this country. Get out and do something physically active America!!!

Comment on Gambling with our Future, Part 2: Implications of Removing Physical Education from Schools by PE2012

PE2012 — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:15:06 +0000

My thoughts on physical education being removed from the
academic curriculum of schools are very similar to the ones previously
stated. Finances within this
economy are consistently declining.
Declining funds directly correlate to job cuts and academics getting cut
back as well. Like the article
states, cutting physical education would essentially save the school district
money but only temporarily. People
would pay the price for cutting this vital part of learning from their
schooling. Physical activity is
necessary in our daily lives due to evolution from being hunter/gatherers to
relying on technological advances in transportation and facilitating moving
workloads. Even if the U.S. budget
were saved from spending on P.E, even more of the budget would be spent on
Healthcare costs related to obesity.
Health and wellness is a large part of physical education that goes hand
in hand with the physical activity learned within the class. This part of a student’s academia aids
in prevention of obesity and gives students the necessary skills to continue a
physically active and well-balanced lifestyle. Prevention of obesity is key to ward off the hypokinetic
diseases that currently plague over half of American adults. The need to have a well-rounded
education includes a healthy and strong mind and body.

Comment on Gambling with our Future, Part 2: Implications of Removing Physical Education from Schools by dentists marketing

dentists marketing — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:24:26 +0000

This rattled me, honestly. Why would they think removing PE will be the solution to our problems?

Comment on Gambling with our Future, Part 2: Implications of Removing Physical Education from Schools by superman21

superman21 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:11:11 +0000

I could not agree more with the statements that are being
made in the article above. I understand that our society is going through a
rough economic time and that school funding is being cut back, but I
don't think that taking physical education away from our students is the
answer. Removing physical education in order to focus on other school requirements such as math, science, and reading may help increase those scores a little, but why at the cost of childhood obesity? It is important for students to receive daily physical education in order to help them develop positive fitness habits at a young age, which they can hopefully use the rest of the lives. If we continue to decrease the amount of time that we allow for physical education in our schools, then we are only going to see higher numbers of overweight and obese children (which turn into obese adults). The statistics in the article do not lie, obesity is a major issue sweeping across our country and the longer we ignore it, the greater the consequences will be. For those individuals that feel that physical education is irrelevant, I ask your recommendations for providing fitness information and healthy lifestyle choices to students all across the country. We can either try to spend a little more now or spend a lot later on Health care bills. Just think about it.

Comment on Gambling with our Future, Part 2: Implications of Removing Physical Education from Schools by PETEstudent

PETEstudent — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:42:04 +0000

I believe that the whole point of going to school is to prepare our students for the future. We want our students to be able to walk out in to the real world and be successful. Of course being able to read and write as necessities but as the article states our world has changed. We are no longer doing manual labor for eight hours a day. Before it was natural to get physical activity in everyday but now we need to set away the time to be physically active. I think that by taking physical education out of the schools it is robbing our students of a necessity that they need to live a long happy healthy life. Watching our obesity rates in this country grow is getting out of control. We need to keep physical education in school so we are able to educate our students on something that is so important to their lives.

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Comment on Health Matters Summit and Howell Wechsler’s 5 Points by temmi gill

temmi gill — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:29:57 +0000

The wonderful Annika Sorenstam, our SPARK advocate and spokesperson,
and Don Ochsenreiter (Executive Director) of the ANNIKA Foundation were
there as well. We’re grateful to Annika for mentioning SPARK and the
terrific work we do together during her presentation during the session
titled, “Building Healthier Communities.
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