Physicsl Fitnss Test

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so stupid. I failed the PFT both years I went to public school. And yet I am undoubtedly as an adult healthier than the average overweight MAHA loser living in a trailer and smoking cigs all day.

Let's Move was much better bc it started in the home encouraging parents to get their kids moving and eating better.

Yay, congrats, you did some push ups. Your parents still feed you processed slop and let you play video games all day. Meanwhile, my mother went to exercise class every day, made us play outside, and only fed us unprocessed foods but bc I was on the smaller side I was deemed unhealthier than kids who were eating chicken nuggets every night.

This is such cope, as the kids say.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:KINDA FUNNY HOW Education is up to the states.

Right? And also, I thought school was for book learning and not pushing someone's agenda on other people. I don't give two figs if my kid can do a push up or run a mile. Who is the president to tell me that physical fitness is something to be celebrated and rewarded? Stop pushing your jock-boy values on my child!

Some minor level of fitness for kids is very important

Dp here. True, but do you really expect kids to go out and get fit training for this? Lol. No kid is going to care much about something called Presidential Physical Fitness Award. They will take the series of tests, the athletic kids will get it, and nobody else will. Then they will all move on. I would argue that they will lose movement time because they will have to spend PE sitting around watching everyone else test. The Obama’s actually focused on getting kids to move more.

The test is designed to give some baseline assessment of a child's physical fitness. People are positively delusional about their kids' health and fitness. A child who cannot run a mile in less than 15 minutes needs intervention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You sound unhinged, OP. Proof read. Spell correctly. Don't repeat yourself. And know that individual schools can do whatever they want. We're in MCPS, and some of the schools have fitness tests, others don't. It depends on the grade and the teacher.

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I can't even believe the title of this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have kids in elementary and they have not done it. I also hated the stupid fitness test as a kid because yes I was unathletic and sucked at it. I still grew up to be a healthy adult who works out several times a week and is slimmer than the athletic kids who grew up and gained a lot of weight.

This fitness test is already done in schools. It's just a way for this orange to one up Michelle Obama's 'Let's Move' campaign which promoted healthy student lifestyles