Many people find raising a family more important than civil participation, especially given the futility of the latter.

Health instead of PE isn't ideal, but I can understand why a school would choose to do that given limited time in the school day.

I doubt your school board considers teaching sports important. I think they would agree with me that it's a side effect of playing active sports.

Matter and energy have nothing to do with consciouses. Consciousness if a particular human characteristic for which there is no reason to attribute it to the universe.

At it's best, pantheism is a way to say "the world is sooo cool".

At worst it's a personal relationship with something that is not anything like a person. It's having the universe as your imaginary friend.

Something being a religion to some people does not make the overall thing a religion in this kind of discussion.

I would also add to this that calling something a religion to someone is often hyperbole. Sports are a prime example.

Where is this dictionary with an essay on the nuanced meaning of religion that you are describing? That's certainly not what you quoted above.

What alternative could you provide for being physically fit during the school year?

Not receiving a passing grade in PE is exactly the same as failing. It amounts to a penalty for being injured.

I'm not under such an impression.

I'm just baffled why you think it's so important that kids learn the rules of sports.

You have proven that you understand basic logic and the idiot above who said "a suicidal person isn't necessary to themselves", even though inherently for that person to overcome suicidal depression and stay alive they obviously have to exist, is a perfect example of a shithead.

When people do not grasp what you mean despite it being blatantly obvious to you, it doesn't mean they're shitheads or idiots. It means you suck at communicating.

Living things don't view themselves as things. Life is an arbitrary line in the complexity of things that grow. Things are another arbitrary line people draw to organize the world. Living things are only a thing to beings with certain level of mental capability. Specifically, you need self awareness to have a concept of being a distinct living being. Being autonomously replicating and growing is not enough. Only if you are self aware can you then have a value of that thing you call your "self".