Lack of Physical Education
Lack of Physical Education is the inadequacy of the provision and effectiveness of exercise and physical activity within modern education.[1]
More than a third of young people in grades 9-12 do not regularly engage in vigorous physical activity. Daily participation in high school physical education classes dropped from 42% in 1991 to 28% in 2003.[2]
Nearly 10 million children and adolescents in the United States ages 6–19 are considered overweight because the lack of physical education in schools. [3] Children aged 6-11 have also more than doubled in rate of obesity over the last twenty years.[4]
[edit] Causes
The causes of the increasing lack of physical education include budgetary pressure which limits the resources provided for this; the increasing attractiveness of rival pastimes such as video games; and the increased emphasis upon academic results.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Shannon W. Weed (2005), The disappearance of physical education, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SaSDHAAACAAJ
- ^ Lack of Physical Activity, http://www2.state.id.us/phd7/hpps/Promotion/PAN/Lack%20of%20physical%20Activity.htm
- ^ Physical Education in Schools, http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3010854
- ^ Leslie Haub (2007), Childhood obesity and the lack of physical education programs, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eGNXNAAACAAJ
- ^ Lack of physical education weighs heavily on many, The Boston Globe, May 30, 2007, http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/05/30/lack_of_physical_education_weighs_heavily_on_many/
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