Phys. Ed. ROL

Motivating students to exercise is a significant problem, even though many students report they believe fitness is a significant part of physical education. One study conducted at Ohio State University found that “more than half of students they surveyed in three urban areas believe fitness is an important part of physical education. But 74% say they have had negative experiences while participating in fitness activities, such as running or weight lifting” (Kelly and Henry 1). Further, even though a high percentage of young people are overweight and research confirms that good physical education training in early life is a key to lifelong health habits, physical education programs have been on the decline in American schools. Physical education programs have continued to erode over the past decade, an erosion exacerbated by interest in technology and parents who question the appropriateness of physical education as they knew it. A U.S. Surgeon General report on physical activity and health affirms the decline in physical education during the 1990s, “only 25 percent of high school students participated in daily physical education in 1995, down from 42 percent five years earlier” (Kennedy Manzo 1). Another issue which causes concern regarding physical education is the fact that in many Kindergarten through sixth grade

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cal education classes where children of all types will interact, much as people of all types do outside of school. As Gay (324) states “Young children experience the world daily in all its diversity, but know and understand preciously little about what they are experiencing. Children have a right to expect school instructional programs to help them develop skills for understanding this universe of pluralistic peoples and experiences, and to help then maximize their potential for achieving socially constructive and personally fulfilling lives in this highly diversified world.” Part of that world is people with special educational needs and by having mixed physical education classes instructors are devising a school setting that socializes children based on real-world realities. Ingram, M. L. Trends in education of crippled children. Journal of Educational Sociology. Vol. 6. No. 6. 1993, 339-347. This article argues that despite a lot of progress to the contrary, the trend in education legislation pertaining to special needs students has been to provide them with opportunities which are equal to those of the normal student. While many schools have done so they have done so in a separatist manner, keeping regular stude
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