Florida Law

Congratulations to governor Crist for passing a new law to mandate daily PE K-8 in Florida. Hopefully his leadership will lead to this type of legislation in more states. The good news is the new state law passed, but it will be interesting to watch the implementation of this new program. I don't know the answers, but I have a few questions to ask. The article stated 30 minutes would be required K-5, but the word used to describe middle school was schools are encouraged strong to provide 225 minutes per week. One very important question, will qualified PE teachers be teaching the classes? Another very important question, what will the class size be in the PE classes? If they double up the classes and there are 50 students in the class, it will not be PE but glorified baby sitting. I would rather see quality PE 3 times a week than daily PE that is just babysitting. Regardless, this is a first important step to get PE back into American Schools. Congratulations to Governor Crist and the entire state of Florida. We now how positive movement in Florida and California, hopefully it will spread quickly.

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