“I am glad to be here with the Glen Haven Bulldogs to demonstrate how important it is for young people early on to begin to [monitor] themselves in [physically],” said Governor Perdue. — DeKalb County Schools Website
The governor did not, it seems, sign a bill regarding English instruction.
HB 229, or the Student Health and Physical Education Act, requires local school systems to conduct an annual fitness assessment and to comply with state physical education instruction requirements. The bill also calls for school systems to provide reporting of fitness assessment results, which is inclusive of an annual report to the Governor, and to also provide a recognition program for those students meeting standards. — DeKalb County Schools Website
The implication of this article is that school systems are not currently required to “comply with state physical education instruction requirements,” which seems odd. The bigger issue, I think, is that the state is more interested in PE requirements than in, say, math scores or a functional science (or math) curriculum. As a result of the PE/Health requirement at the school, I and the people I know learned exciting facts like:
- AIDS is caused by malnutrition.
- Cancer attacks the weakest part of your body. That’s why women get breast cancer!
- Mat ball is a real game.
Physical education is great, but it’s not the primary purpose of schools. Also, unrelated to HB 229, apparently the third floor flooded yesterday. It’s a flood of progress!
