Under my government...

[Skater]

Under my government...

• Schools would be FORCED to have 5 hours of PE a week for every pupil.
• The PE lessons must be taught by qualified teachers, they should not be an excuse to mess about
• Emphasis must be placed on mainstream UK sports; football, cricket and rugby.
• Funding will be given to schools for after school sports clubs.

More to come. In the meantime, what do you think?

 

[LUMB_YORKSHIRE]

stop the people who have no reason of not to be working to be entitled to money and housing

 

[Will_NA]

I would be assassinated.

 

[Cricketman]

All government colleges have a cap of charging only $15,000 a year for in state students.

 

[Skater]

• All unemployed must register as such to receive benefits.
• The only benefits for being unemployed will be jobseeker's allowance and incapacity benefit.
• If a person does not enter payed work within one year they will work for the government e.g. postman, road sweeper, etc.
• By the second year of my term all of the 164 grammar schools still existing in Britain must convert to comprehensives.

 

[jordox]

Under my government...

• Schools would be FORCED to have 5 hours of PE a week for every pupil.
• The PE lessons must be taught by qualified teachers, they should not be an excuse to mess about
• Emphasis must be placed on mainstream UK sports; football, cricket and rugby.
• Funding will be given to schools for after school sports clubs.

More to come. In the meantime, what do you think?

:

Here is an exert from Maddox, he speaks the 100% truth (swearing has been replaced):

"Physical education is the biggest load of rubbish in the universe. It doesn't do any good to anyone. How much money is blown in maintaining expensive gym equipment every year? Showers, locker rooms, bathrooms, basketball courts, football stadiums, baseball helmets.. all for what?

Where's the payoff? Little Tommy's parents coming to the football game to cheer him on? Please. Throw that rubbish away. Nobody needs it. Nobody cares. It's completely worthless to anyone and everything. Even if one out of every 100 idiots who hoped to become professional made it big, it still doesn't justify the cost of all this equipment. Sports have no place in public schools, period. I don't care about football, baseball or hockey. You want to play, play on your own time. Let the others that come to school to learn get something done so they can make something of themselves. The notion that sports is allowed in public schools is preposterous. Why not devote a class to playing video games? What the hell good does it do? No more or less than sports. BAH."

 

[Cricketman]

:

Here is an exert from Maddox, he speaks the 100% truth (swearing has been replaced):

"Physical education is the biggest load of rubbish in the universe. It doesn't do any good to anyone. How much money is blown in maintaining expensive gym equipment every year? Showers, locker rooms, bathrooms, basketball courts, football stadiums, baseball helmets.. all for what?

Where's the payoff? Little Tommy's parents coming to the football game to cheer him on? Please. Throw that rubbish away. Nobody needs it. Nobody cares. It's completely worthless to anyone and everything. Even if one out of every 100 idiots who hoped to become professional made it big, it still doesn't justify the cost of all this equipment. Sports have no place in public schools, period. I don't care about football, baseball or hockey. You want to play, play on your own time. Let the others that come to school to learn get something done so they can make something of themselves. The notion that sports is allowed in public schools is preposterous. Why not devote a class to playing video games? What the hell good does it do? No more or less than sports. BAH."

It might be to make kids lose weight/get healthier.

 

[jordox]

It might be to make kids lose weight/get healthier.

And why must school achieve this?

I'm all for PE being taught to young students - teach them things like safe sex, healthy foods, relationships, ect.. It's just the other side of it that is unnecessary.

And besides, do you really think a fat kid is going to get skinny because every Monday afternoon the kids go and play footy at the school oval and muck around? Nope. From my experience from high school PE lessons involved the fat kids getting laughed at because their man boobs jiggled when they did the 100 meter sprints.

And this is just my experience, but PE lessons at my school in Australia just involved us going down to the oval and acting like idiots, kicking footballs into the "loser" group. That's all we did. Only once a year would we actually have a work out. But, that's besides the point anyway, school shouldn't be a system to help fat kids loose weight.

 

[Covvy]

Well at my school we only get 1 hour of P.E a week which is not enough especially as thats the only time some people do physical stuff.

 

[Skater]

The target for Scottish schools is 2 hours of PE a week, which I don't think is enough. There are of course physical benefits of PE, school kids doing 5 hours of PE a week will be very fit and healthy. My own PE lessons were an excuse to mess about but my plan would involve the lessons being taught by qualified teachers and driven towards a goal.
More than the physical benefits, sport helps concentration, discipline, teamwork and ambition. These are all skills that can be taken into the classroom. With so much mainstream sport being played at school there will be a very strong domestic structure for our national teams to choose from.
5 hours a week equates to 1 hour a day. That 1 hour, right before lunch.

 

[mattfb]

We have gym twice in a fortnight. We have week A and B so whether you have it twice in a week (Like me [Wednesday and Friday) or once every week depends on your time table. We also have 2 PE health lessons a fortnight. I have Gym on the Wednesday and Friday of week A and PE Health on the Wednesday and Friday of week B.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Ooh...

I would make Psychology compulsory in all schools till the kids are 16. That's for sure.

 

[ste_mc_efc]

Everyone with an IQ < 120 to be forcibly sterilised.


Erm, I meant free candy for everyone who wants it.

 

[Sureshot]

And why must school achieve this?

I'm all for PE being taught to young students - teach them things like safe sex, healthy foods, relationships, ect.. It's just the other side of it that is unnecessary.

And besides, do you really think a fat kid is going to get skinny because every Monday afternoon the kids go and play footy at the school oval and muck around? Nope. From my experience from high school PE lessons involved the fat kids getting laughed at because their man boobs jiggled when they did the 100 meter sprints.

And this is just my experience, but PE lessons at my school in Australia just involved us going down to the oval and acting like idiots, kicking footballs into the "loser" group. That's all we did. Only once a year would we actually have a work out. But, that's besides the point anyway, school shouldn't be a system to help fat kids loose weight.

When the UK is facing (or in) an obesity epidemic the government sees fit to get the kids doing more exercise, the "PlayStation generation" needs to do more. Fact is, as you well know being a chef, the quality of food that people eat is absolutely shocking. Want to help kids lose weight then you get the parents to cook better meals and ban unhealthy food.

On food, you may be interested to know a mate had a trial shift yesterday in Jamie Oliver's new (only open to critics atm) restaurant in Brighton, they hope to do 2,000 covers on Saturday's...

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/1744488.jamie_to_open_lowprice_pukka_pasta_joint/

Only 9 months behind schedule...

I'm all for PE being taught to young students - teach them things like safe sex, healthy foods, relationships, ect.. It's just the other side of it that is unnecessary

Not sure how it works in Aus/Zim, but all sex education, healthy foods, etc, wasn't discussed in PE, but in PSHE (Physical, Sexual and Health Education iirc, was 5 years ago...). Don't ask me why. Sometimes also studied in General Studies iirc.