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Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 3, 2009 - 08:48 AM
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Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents? How should it be taught?
What do you think?
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 3, 2009 - 06:50 PM
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Physical Education covers a wide range. Here in the Philippines, Physical Education (PE) is being taught as early as pre-school upto college. Probably some part of the subject can be taught by parents, but based on my experience, PE includes various sports (individual, dual, team) - which parents has a very limited scope and facility. Also, aside from that, there are theoretical concepts that should be learned as well aside from just playing the sport.
And playing a certain sport can be more fun if you're in a large group or with your friends.
Therefore, I suggest that Physical Education should be taught in school.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 3, 2009 - 11:00 PM
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The argument is kind of silly. Of course it should be. The sad truth is that without encouragement to join local sports teams and to keep fit and healthy, students would be more likely to wind up on the couch with their bag of potato chips while watching their favourite cartoons, and in the ads being subjected to the latest subliminal “MMMM I’m loving it” form of advertising. All my school life my teachers have included sport/games into their lessons at least one afternoon a week. It encourages fine motor skills, team building and participation. You don’t have to be the best, I certainly wasn’t. You just have to give it your all and to have fun  Though I don’t suggest you force your kids/students to join local sports teams but a fun game in P.E won’t hurt them.
How should it be taught?
In my secondary school Phys Ed. is compulsery until 5th form when you start to choose what classes you would like to focus on. Four hours a week you meet with your teacher and the rest of your class and play either a team buiding exercise or sport The year is split up into different sports which you are marked on a vairety of things. Participation, skill, team building etc etc. For 2 weeks you maybe taught how to play tennis, and actually taught skills as well not just expected to know what to do and then for the next 2 weeks it might be softball or rugby.
Not only does it teach the points I made in my above two paragraphs but our Phys Ed. classes also include the subject Health. Where once a term we will spend about 2-3 week studying and learning about well... Health topics 
So yes, I highly encourage the subject Physical Education to be included in all schools, I know I have benefitted from it!
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 4, 2009 - 12:14 AM
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In Bangladesh physical education is not mandatory. But some good schools provides physical education to all students.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 4, 2009 - 01:02 AM
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PE is definitely something that should be thought in school. Over here, every primary and secondary school students has to do PE once a week,for about an hour plus. We also have theory exams on it. PE is basically the time where you let loose and have some fun-take some time away from all that brain stretching. We usually play football,netball,badminton,etc. We also have a fitness test twice a year-push ups,sit ups,brisk walking,etc. Parents can and should spend some time doing sports with their children, but not as part of an education but more of a means to spend some quality time with their children. Physical education should be in schools because parents don't necessarily know the right method of doing some sports and might put the child at risk of some sort of injury. Whereas, at schools teachers are trained in the way of doing it. PE in school encourages team building of course helps keep us healthy. We also have sports as part of our co-curricular activities which we have once a week from 3-5 pm. Students are free to pick whatever sport they like and for that whole year learn how to play it the right way. They also prepare for sports comps,etc.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 4, 2009 - 04:35 AM
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Newklear wrote:
The argument is kind of silly. Of course it should be. The sad truth is that without encouragement to join local sports teams and to keep fit and healthy, students would be more likely to wind up on the couch with their bag of potato chips while watching their favourite cartoons, and in the ads being subjected to the latest subliminal “MMMM I’m loving it” form of advertising. All my school life my teachers have included sport/games into their lessons at least one afternoon a week. It encourages fine motor skills, team building and participation. You don’t have to be the best, I certainly wasn’t. You just have to give it your all and to have fun * Though I don’t suggest you force your kids/students to join local sports teams but a fun game in P.E won’t hurt them.
This is exactly right. It definetely should be taught. Another point is that being physically healthy aids in mental, emotional and intellectual health as well. Therefore the benefits of PE can be felt in a school sense as well.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 4, 2009 - 07:45 AM
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hmm.. Nice arguments. Bangladesh should make physical education compulsary.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 4, 2009 - 01:52 PM
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While physical education curriculum and schedule in school is so limited, I think parents should play a more proactive role in children's physical education. They should send kids to local musical schools or local basketball/football clubs or swimming pool at least twice every week.
Nowadays, varsity sports is increasingly playing an important role in anyone's life - higher education, career (, and love ^^).
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 5, 2009 - 01:08 AM
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mastertek wrote:
While physical education curriculum and schedule in school is so limited, I think parents should play a more proactive role in children's physical education. They should send kids to local musical schools or local basketball/football clubs or swimming pool at least twice every week.
Nowadays, varsity sports is increasingly playing an important role in anyone's life - higher education, career (, and love ^^).
Yes parents should take care. And students should go to the health clubs if varsity do not have the facility.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 5, 2009 - 10:06 AM
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anwar wrote:
mastertek wrote:
While physical education curriculum and schedule in school is so limited, I think parents should play a more proactive role in children's physical education. They should send kids to local musical schools or local basketball/football clubs or swimming pool at least twice every week.
Nowadays, varsity sports is increasingly playing an important role in anyone's life - higher education, career (, and love ^^).
Yes parents should take care. And students should go to the health clubs if varsity do not have the facility.
health clubs are for middle-aged women, lolz.
By the way, no matter what you learn, being involved in a varsity sports is critical in life. Schools should always remind students about that.
My high school coordinated with physical education facilities around the city. My friend who chose to play tennis as his varsity made it to national competition thanks to the tennis school (which is one of the best in the city) he was arranged to. And he made his way to a good university in the U.S. after then.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 6, 2009 - 12:51 AM
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I agree with a lot of people here that physical education should be taught in schools. Like Marcus said, it's kind of a silly question. If we don't have physical education, why bother having science? It's good to introduce students from an early age to sports and the like just as we would science.
For me personally, if it wasn't for P.E. in school, I don't think I would be doing the sports I do/have played. And if we didn't have the culture of playing sports that we have developed at school, I don't think we'd be introduced to new sports. A while ago, I started playing squash with my friends, which includes Marcus, who got introduced to that sport by another friend. By doing P.E. at school, we see sports as also a social activity that we can do with friends and so pass that along.
I also think that parents should encourage their children to participate in physical education. But I don't think it should particularly be a responsibility for them. They should be involved with the sports that their children play, by either helping with coaching, refereeing or simply by cheering on the sidelines.
I don't think it should be a question of a choice between the two. They both need to work together.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 7, 2009 - 03:32 AM
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One thing I love PE to be taught in school is that after all stressful works and discussion on other subjects in school, PE is one channel which we can unwind and forget all possible stress that may affect our emotional and mental state of being.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 7, 2009 - 07:36 AM
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Ahahaha wrote:
I agree with a lot of people here that physical education should be taught in schools. Like Marcus said, it's kind of a silly question. If we don't have physical education, why bother having science? It's good to introduce students from a early age to sports and the like just as we would science.
For me personally, if it wasn't for P.E. in school, I don't think I would be doing the sports I do/have played. And if we didn't have the culture of playing sports that we have developed at school, I don't think we'd be introduced to new sports. A while ago, I started playing squash with my friends, which includes Marcus, who got introduced to that sport by another friend. By doing P.E. at school, we see sports as also a social activity that we can do with friends and so pass that along.
I also think that parents should encourage their children to participate in physical education. But I don't think it should particularly be a responsibility for them. They should be involved with the sports that their children play, by either helping with coaching, refereeing or simply by cheering on the sidelines.
I don't think it should be a question of a choice between the two. They both need to work together.
To maintain a standard education system we have to assure all students have a minimum amount of knowledge. All parents may not able to give appropriate guideline. So as many schools do not provide PE, It is a important topic for them. I think here we discussed the point very well by addressing all the issues.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 11, 2009 - 05:51 AM
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franmarie wrote:
One thing I love PE to be taught in school is that after all stressful works and discussion on other subjects in school, PE is one channel which we can unwind and forget all possible stress that may affect our emotional and mental state of being.
Agree. PE is a great escape after stressful classes and it's a channel to build up friendships among class's members :P
And I have a bad feeling that it would be a disaster if schools left it to the parents. Well parents are busy all day at work, and they just simply rely all on schools.
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Re: Should children be given physical education in schools, or should this be the responsibility of the parents?
May 12, 2009 - 11:42 AM
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I'm a bit torn when it comes to this topic
i agree that most of us don't have the motivation to move our butts at all, so PE helps keeps away the obessity
yet, i find it really annoyed to have PE on my report card. along with music and art. Personally,i think that those are specific skills that vary largely in people.
This year i luckily did well enough to get 4.00 for all my math, english and science classes (about 8 classes in total) however with music and art and pe and health education, my grade was pulled down to a 3.59
I'm not a person whose very serious about my grade but with that grade it could cut my chances of a scholarship which i think is unfair
espeicially when there is a problem with the teachers of these subjects (at least at my school) don't put in half the enough of teaching as teachers of my other subjects.
I don't like to think that i lost my chances of getting a scholarship for which i nearly died from lack of sleep studying physics for just because i screw up with my volleyball serve.
So teaching it in school is a good idea but having it affect your grade just as much as physics doesn't seem logical to me
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