{"id":129030,"date":"2017-11-07T01:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=129030"},"modified":"2017-11-07T01:57:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:57:41","slug":"move-over-dodgeball-schools-pump-up-phys-ed-with-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/11\/07\/move-over-dodgeball-schools-pump-up-phys-ed-with-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over, dodgeball: Schools pump up phys ed with choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_129032\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129032\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/640px-Dodgeball_on_court-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-129032\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/640px-Dodgeball_on_court-1.jpg\" alt=\"A dodgeball on a court, prior to the beginning of the match. (Photo By U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Soo C. Kim, Public Domain)\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/640px-Dodgeball_on_court-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/640px-Dodgeball_on_court-1-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-129032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dodgeball on a court, prior to the beginning of the match. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=26317319\">Photo By U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Soo C. Kim, Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The federal education law taking full effect this school year lists health and fitness among things like civics and science as elements of a well-rounded education.<\/p>\n<p>At a time when schools are all about getting students ready for college or jobs, experts say it&#8217;s a chance for more physical education teachers to look beyond graduation, too, and leave even the least competitive students with the will and skills to keep moving.<\/p>\n<p>In many places, that&#8217;s meant more bike-riding, hikes and yoga, and less dodgeball &#8212; more choice about activities and less emphasis on who&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n<p>In upstate New York&#8217;s Victor school district, students choose from things like kayaking, rock climbing, archery and self-defence. Program director Ron Whitcomb says the goal is for students to be active for life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal education law taking full effect this school year lists health and fitness among things like civics and science &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":129032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24157,37,16],"tags":[7538,31610,31607,31612,31606,31611,31613,1759,31609,31614,31616,2052,31615,31608],"class_list":["post-129030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-american-news","category-health","category-news","tag-archery","tag-bike-riding","tag-civics","tag-dodgeball","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-hikes-and-yoga","tag-kayaking","tag-new-york","tag-physical-education","tag-rock-climbing","tag-ron-whitcomb","tag-science","tag-self-defence","tag-well-rounded-education","mauthors-carolyn-thompson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}