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Education should promote sound body & mind.

How important is being book smart if you're a prime candidate for a heart attack at the time of your high school graduation. Our kids are fatter than they've ever been in any other generation.

EVERY kid should have 4 years of some type of physical education, no 13 years counting kindergarten.

You are talking about kids who are involved in sports, so they are getting physical activity, making your point meaningless. If you where talking about kids whose only activity is walking from the car into school, then your point might hold water. If you are talking about someone who like my daughter, who runs 4-7 miles, followed by 1 1/2 hour soccer practice, mandatory PE is ridiculous. My daughter has always said she wants and is going to be a professional athlete. I tell her that is great, but get an education,and a backup plan, because it is very small % of people who can live that dream. She is preparing herself for a life after her dream or for if it does not happen.

And book smarts will help the prime candidate for heart attack, because he will be able to get a better job that allows for better doctors, can afford a personel trainer , can afford a home gym, can afford a healthier diet, ect.