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It is when it is not the point of the class. What does animal slaughter have to do with PE? If I had a child in that class I would be asking why there was any classroom activity at all. PE is about physical activity, playing team sports and learning cooperation as a member of that team. Not about how many different ways an animal can be slaughtered.
Did you read the OP? She explains that in the third quarter of the school year, they went from the physical activities to health education.
Did you read the OP? She explains that in the third quarter of the school year, they went from the physical activities to health education.
Exactly correct. In many school systems, PE class includes health. Often it's in the form of one semester of health, sometimes it's a day a week, there are a number of ways it is scheduled. I have also seen at least of system where health is, instead, included in 7th grade "life science" (biology).
Did you read the OP? She explains that in the third quarter of the school year, they went from the physical activities to health education.
Again... what does animal slaughter have to do with either class? Factory farming existed when I was in school in the 1980's and 1990's too, but none of my teachers had teaching about it as part of their classtoom agenda. And I took health class twice, in middle and high school, and not combined with PE. It was a completely separate class, as it should be.
Again... what does animal slaughter have to do with either class? Factory farming existed when I was in school in the 1980's and 1990's too, but none of my teachers had teaching about it as part of their classtoom agenda. And I took health class twice, in middle and high school, and not combined with PE. It was a completely separate class, as it should be.
You have a point that animal slaughter has little to do with health ed or PE. It's more of a sociology issue. But geez, I remember learning about factory farming back in the 60s when we studied the midwest. And as a couple of us have pointed out, some schools in areas where there is a meat-packing industry take field trips to the packing houses.
I don't know if there's a way health "should" be taught. It depends on the district.
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