dance dance resolution
Nicole points me to news that West Virginia is installing DDR in its middle schools in order to fight childhood obesity. Neat. I remember seeing the news of the pilot study last April, but I never suspected it'd result in an actual, widely-deployed fitness program. Lucky fat kids.
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awesome.
funny. my niece asked for DDR this xmas and for the added effect she wrote "it's great exercise" on her xmas list.
From the article: "The game is not meant to replace physical education and health classes. Rather, it is one more option that may appeal to students who often dislike other sports."
Catherine can attest to the following... in VA they used to have square dancing as part of high school gym class. They also did a little bit of country line dancing too. To this day, I don't understand why you could opt out of the sex-ed portion of gym/health class, but you couldn't opt out of square dancing. Instead of baseball, we had to play wiffle ball. If school sports weren't so elitist, maybe we'd get more kids active. Also, maybe if they didn't serve junk food in the cafeterias, they could reduce the number of chubsters.
Lawsuits be damned, they should bring back dodgeball to the American education system.
T, former College Dodgeballer and High School Soccer reject
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