Over the semester my focus has been on childhood obesity in
our nation. I’m going to continue this focus with my third paper as well. I can
think of plenty of things that need to change in this area, but I’m not so good
and coming up with ways to go about changing those problems. I’ve been toying
around with lots of things to call attention to change about, from school
lunches buying from local producers, TV stations not airing during certain
hours to encourage kids to get outside, and schools offering more time for
recesses. During my first essay a
teacher I spoke to and interviewed said that her school offers Fitness Fridays,
where the school kids get together and do little work outs. After much thought,
I decided on this as solution for childhood obesity. In Japan, offices and
schools take breaks and do exercises to encourage a healthy lifestyle and
activity. I think we should take this idea and use it in our school systems. At
recesses schools should lead an easy activity to encourage a healthy lifestyle.
Some kids at recess run around and are active while others merely sit in the
grass; by having an activity for all kids to participate in, it allows kids to
be active daily (and not opt out of joining in). It wouldn’t be too difficult
to integrate either because it would be during recesses that are already
included in the day, it wouldn’t be taking time away from teaching. If this is
something we can integrate into schools, during already allotted times of
recess it will be another method at promoting healthier lifestyles.
Here is a big issue right at home; ASU. At my community college, for my degree, we had a required amount of PE credits, I believe it was 5cr. And when I came here there wasn't a requirement at all to be athletic during the four years most spend getting their degree. That is bizarre! Why doesn't this four year college promote healthy living by making it a general degree requirement. Personally I think that is something you might be able to work into your paper :)
ReplyDeleteThis is a great topic you are working with and i think you have a very good understanding of how you are going to fix this problem. Your proposal is very good and i think will have a big impact on everyone. When i was in grade school P.E was not a big deal at all, now you must attend all these P.E classes and stuff ut yet they still have junk food and bad food for lunch. we need to maybe change the way people eat not just exercise.
ReplyDelete