Tyree: Could lack of PE mean shortage of Olympic athletes?

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• samkat posted at 6:38 pm on Thu, Jul 19, 2012.

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  Don't try to convince our flat earth religious zealots that PE is more important than religious courses that could be had in Sunday school. I believe studies have concluded that exercise tends to sharpen the brain. Like you, I was not fond of PE but then we were a lot more active in my school years. If I was "King for a Day" sex ed would come back into the class room as well as PE. The 3R's have also gone by the wayside. Our foreign competitors are walking all over us because we have idiots for legislators these days.
  

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• Arizona Willie posted at 1:47 pm on Fri, Jul 20, 2012.

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  I have no objection to PE. I think some exercise is a fine thing.

  I get a lot of it jumping to conclusions. [smile]

  What I do object to is the vast amount of money spent on baseball and football and soccer teams in public schools.

  They hire coaches that are often paid more than the principal.

  School is about the 3R's basically, or should be.

  A kid has more chance of being hit by lightening twice than they do of becoming a professional athlete. Yet every taxpayer pays to have those sports activities in schools although less than 1% even go out for the teams.

  Drive down the street and check out the area devoted to athletics compared to the area devoted to classrooms.

  I drive by a junior high all the time and the sprinklers are spraying water on acres of green grass here in the middle of Aridzona, and the fields are fenced and have huge banks of lights for night time operation. Huge amounts of money are spent for sports there and that is just ONE junior high. On football night we hear fireworks going off when the team scores. Who is paying for those I wonder?

  No money for teacher salaries but gobs of money for the football team.

  In my NSHO, not one dime should be spent for athletics in schools.

  If parents want to try to make a pro-athlete out of their kid they should send them to after school camps ran by has been pro-athletes whose careers are over.

  Taxpayers should be be paying for that.
  

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• Engaged Voter posted at 1:49 pm on Fri, Jul 20, 2012.

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  samkat, you may be on to something there.

  If physical activity sharpens the mind, well then of COURSE religious zealots will oppose it - just as they oppose anything that threatens their collection plate.

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• Arizona Willie posted at 1:50 pm on Fri, Jul 20, 2012.

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  Oops .. typo alert ... last sentence should have been:

  Taxpayers should NOT be paying for that.

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