What About PE? - A Great Series by KUOW
KUOW's Ann Dornfeld has done a three-part series on PE in public schools that is both informative and illuminating. Some of what she reports is troubling. Part One - Seattle Area Kids Don't Get Enough P.E., but Who's Keeping Track? This was the most troubling part as we find that neither SPS nor OSPI is really tracking what is a legal requirement. In fact, SPS almost has a "all the other kids are doing it" attitude. But a KUOW investigation found that few elementary schools in the Seattle area provide the required amount of P.E. In fact, not one of the eight Seattle-area school districts contacted by KUOW meets the state P.E. law. Who is keeping track of how much P.E. students are getting? Not Olympia’s state school officials. "We do not have a data collection mechanism in place," said Lisa Rakoz, the health and fitness education program supervisor at the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. "We trust that school dist...