why health and pe should be mandatory in american schools
Why health and fitness should be a mandatory four year course in American High Schools.
Upon entry into this world, we as humans are given ONE body. If we do not take of our body, we will have no place to live. What better place to inform the American society of the vitality in health and fitness than school? Who better to inform of the importance of this subject than the up and coming generation? In order to communicate the value of health fitness to America, it must be a mandatory subject for high school students to complete four years of this course. Unfortunately, this topic is not properly emphasized in American education. There is an obesity epidemic in our country today. According to www.cdc.gov in the year 2010 approximately sixty-nine percent of people twenty years of age and over are considered overweight. I strongly believe that this percentage is so high because the people of America are undereducated in the health and fitness department. The people of America do not know just how much they are taxing their bodies by not eating proper foods or getting an adequate amount of physical activity. This is because they were NOT TAUGHT the importance of nutrition and exercise in school. Do not misinterpret me. I know that PE and health classes are offered in school. For example, at my high school our freshman year it was mandatory to take ONE SEMESTER (5 months) of PE and ONE QUARTER(2.5 months)—JUST ONE—of health. Any further education in that department was the student’s choice. But let’s be honest. In our growing world of technology, if a student had the option between a weight training course and a iMac digital communications class, they would choose the computers over exercising. In those five months of PE, we learned how to play an incredible amount of useless ball games and how fast we ran the mile. In my opinion, the concept of “physical education” in the public schooling system is completely warped. Students shouldn’t be graded for how
Upon entry into this world, we as humans are given ONE body. If we do not take of our body, we will have no place to live. What better place to inform the American society of the vitality in health and fitness than school? Who better to inform of the importance of this subject than the up and coming generation? In order to communicate the value of health fitness to America, it must be a mandatory subject for high school students to complete four years of this course. Unfortunately, this topic is not properly emphasized in American education. There is an obesity epidemic in our country today. According to www.cdc.gov in the year 2010 approximately sixty-nine percent of people twenty years of age and over are considered overweight. I strongly believe that this percentage is so high because the people of America are undereducated in the health and fitness department. The people of America do not know just how much they are taxing their bodies by not eating proper foods or getting an adequate amount of physical activity. This is because they were NOT TAUGHT the importance of nutrition and exercise in school. Do not misinterpret me. I know that PE and health classes are offered in school. For example, at my high school our freshman year it was mandatory to take ONE SEMESTER (5 months) of PE and ONE QUARTER(2.5 months)—JUST ONE—of health. Any further education in that department was the student’s choice. But let’s be honest. In our growing world of technology, if a student had the option between a weight training course and a iMac digital communications class, they would choose the computers over exercising. In those five months of PE, we learned how to play an incredible amount of useless ball games and how fast we ran the mile. In my opinion, the concept of “physical education” in the public schooling system is completely warped. Students shouldn’t be graded for how