Should Schools Have the Responsibility of Educating Young Children on Keeping Fit and Eating Healthily?

SCHOOLS HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO EDUCATE YOUNG PEOPLE ABOUT KEEPING FIT AND EATING HEALTHILY

Should schools have a responsibility to educate young people about keeping fit and eating healthily? This is an argument that has been going on for years and years. Everyone has their own opinion on this, but in my opinion, I definitely think that schools have a responsibility to educate young people about keeping fit and eating healthily.

Keeping fit and eating healthily is of vital importance, and it is best to know about keeping fit and eating healthily from a young age, and where else is a young person to learn this besides school? School is the second home to a child and school is where they spend most of their time.

If schools don't educate young people on keeping fit and eating healthily, then who will? Most people assume that parents or guardians will educate young people on keeping fit and eating healthily, but statistics show that they usually don't. Parents are usually too busy outside earning a living to support their family that they don't have the time to sit down and talk to their offspring on personal matters like keeping fit and eating healthily. So the responsibility of educating young people on keeping fit and eating healthily is handed over to schools.

As a young person grows older and older, their time gets gobbled up by the massive load of daily activities that they carry out, so they usually don't have time to cook a healthy meal and they turn to fast food as it's fast, cheap and tasty. But what they don't know is that fast food is filled with fat and artificial flavoring and that fast food is anything but healthy. And if schools start educating young people on eating healthily, young people would know better than to stuff themselves with fast food.

Due to the vast amounts of consumptions of fast food or any other unhealthy foods, one often turns unhealthy. And statistics show that unhealthy children appear to turn out lazier than a healthy child. And after one eats lots of unhealthy food, they have higher chances of getting cancer or any other deadly disease. And if schools educate young people on keeping fit and eating healthily, less people will eat fast food or any other unhealthy food and the number of people that die from sicknesses will be reduced.

There are so many ways schools can educate young people on keeping fit and eating healthily. Schools could provide more physical education classes, more sport events or any other beneficial physical activity. These activities and classes are usually quite fun and it could take a lot of a young persons mind.

I believe that whoever cares about their health or their loved ones health, and don't want to die young would agree with me when I say that schools have a responsibility of educating young people on keeping fit and eating healthily.