should students go to gym ?
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I strongly believe that students - and every one else - should go to gym. Diseases caused by lack of exercise and rich foods are prevailing our societies nowadays. The only way to prevent these diseases among our youth is by having them eat healthy and doing enough exercise. This is a good and enough reason to push our students to go to gym. Side: for
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I believe in physical fitness but what I DON'T believe is enslaving teenagers to run around and play exactly what you want them to play for an hour is a fair use of their time. 1) Basic physical capabilities as well as basic understanding or rules of sports should already have been established in youths when they were in the younger grades. 2) Has our mandatory PE through high school resulted so far in a slimmer healthier society? No. Not even close. If that's your argument you've already failed to justify PE. 3) Advanced coursework gets extremely hard in high school and having to drop studying calculus to go play dodgeball in the middle of the school day really makes very little sense. Likewise, having to transition from all out physical exertion to taking an advanced chemistry test 2 minutes later borders on cruelty. I remember PE teachers who kept sports going to the last possible moment which made us in the next class be some combination of drenched with sweat, or wet from showers, at times we really really really needed to concentrate on actual academic material. Side: against
But alas, it isn't that simple http://content.time.com/time/health/ Look, kids who want gym class should do it. I'm just saying making it automatically mandatory for everyone all the way to graduation makes no more sense then making people take typing/word processing classes every year. It's not necessarily the best use of everyone's time, nor does repeatedly taking it automatically guarantee you're a cracker jack typist. Side: against
One more thing. Regarding the comment "Why is it most people who denigrate fitness and sports were lousy athletes?" How would you feel if the person from religion class made a comparable statement that the people who don't want to study it are just morally bad people who are going to hell? Or if the mathlete said the reason people don't want to take math every semester is because they're stupid. Or if the English phenom said people don't want four years of lit class because they're illiterate? It goes both ways. Besides, I didn't denigrate it. I just don't think it should be mandatory in between advanced college prepatory coursework. Side: against
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