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by Broken_Hippo 3437 days ago
Oh, I completely agree with you.

I'd also extend PE so kids have it all through school - in high school, I only had 2 semesters over the years. 6 weeks of that was Ping Pong. Yes. Ping pong. Valid physical activity, sure, but I really don't need to know the rules. It would be more helpful to know how to build up a running habit and how to do resistence and flexibility training safely. It'd be helpful to know how to stay active without equipment - and in addition, how to use the equipment safely.

I generally seperate the nutrition into a health and life skills class, but they could be combined easily.