[Fly Like a Duck]

I shouldn't have to pay to send my kids to a private school for a good education. My job already pays these people to do their job.

Everyone talks about how these things should be taught at home and how the parents should do their part in educating their children. Well then do your part and take the video controller away from your kid. Teach them about proper nutrition and quit taking them to McDonalds. I guarantee theres only a handful of schools in America where PE is actually a physical education class. Plus I know alot of kids who lift weights year round at school and are classified as either overweight or morbidly obese. So explain to me why that is. :worthy:

Not singling you out "upthegut". Its just those that are for lifting during school rather than learning life skills can't/don't have justification why its better. Again do it before or after school. I'M FOR THAT!!!

Same could be said for teaching life skills, do that at home.

I've given my reasons for strength and conditioning/excercise phys/kiniseology classes. One of the reasons they are beneficial during school is for those kids who are multi-sport athlete kids. When they are playing and practicing various sports from August-End of May, it's very difficult for them to get better. And where do you get better? Off season strength/speed/conditioning work.

I guess it all boils down to what you view as important life skills, to each their own. You and others against this have totally disregarded my stipulation for taking Strength/Conditioning, along with other elective classes, in students needing to be able to reach particular benchmarks in their core classes. I'm for all sorts of elective classes being offered (see my last post), but before you take those, you better be able to read, write and do math at or near a proficient level.
If you can, then chances are everything else will take care of itself, so why not take a wellness class? (as I said before, the one I took 3 years in HS was strength/conditioning/nutrition all in one and it was offered to boys and girls, athletes or not..the classes usually ended up being all athletes, bc the non athletes weren't cut out for it truth be told).
And, ask NKY pointed out, they are called electives for a reason. Take them or don't take them.

This has turned into a dumpster fire. We might as well he arguing politics or religion, because it's obvious there is not changing our minds. I'm done.