To serve the state better
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on October 10th, 2007
Here’s an interesting article:
Children’s fitness at ‘critical’ level, survey finds
According to this article general heath is decreasing for elementary schools students. Your average 6th grade boy used to be able to run 50 meters in about 8.60 seconds, but now it takes 8.89 seconds.
Now before you start asking things like, is it video games, too much TV and so on, ask yourself this, is this something the central government really needs to be concerned about?
I guess to the degree we have centralized education in Japan, one would have to say, yes. But let me ask you this, is the decline consistent throughout Japan? Have boys in Tokyo declined as much as those in Okinawa? Have high income families’ children declined as much as low income families’ children?
Hm. I feel like shouting. I think I will –
We all must be healthy in order to serve the state better!
There that feels better. By the way, should the parents have any input into this?