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Physical education isn't merely playing football or hockey. It teaches children about health and society. Just look at the amount of people who go on diets. Any personal trainer, nutritionist or PE teacher will tell you that diets are not only extremely unhealthy but it will make you put on weight. Look at the amount of athletes who drink Gatoriade simply because TV says it gives a bonus. Gatorade type products only work if the exercise you are doing goes for longer than 90 minutes and then it has to be taken in the solution:1 part gatorade/3 parts water. If you dont the end result= chronic stomache cramps. Look at the degree of drug and alcohol abuse in our society. There are about a dozen people in america who tookm a dodgy designer drug and now has to spend the rest of their life in either a catotonic state or palsied whilst being haunted by hallucinations (usually of snakes). One of my friends is pretty heavy into drugs and this freaked him out something savage. Children need to know that all thse bad things that happen will happen to them. Itys far to common for teenagers to think they are invincible which leads gto the philosophy that "it will never happen to me". That is bullshit. How much of smoking starts with peer pressure? PE teaches kids techniques on how to deal with peer pressure. Running around an oval is not physical education. I know I personally found personal development programs at school very helpful. With the amount of STD's and teenage pregnancy going around do we really want to take this source of health information away? PE teaches life skills that every single person needs whether they are physically active or not. It doesnt get enough attention as it is.
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