Are you kidding me?
Related: Ya Gotta Love Sports!
FLASHBACK:
"Menino will seek gifts for school sports; Sets goal of $4 million, vows to create nonprofit" by Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | June 28, 2009
Mayor Thomas M. Menino, aiming to curb chronic failings in Boston’s high school athletic programs, said he will create a nonprofit charitable foundation spearheaded by former athletes and business leaders to transform the troubled sports system into a source of urban pride.
Too bad they weren't as worried about the kids' ejerkashen.
The foundation is the centerpiece of a series of changes Menino crafted in response to a Globe series that showed the city has severely shortchanged Boston’s high school athletes in funding, equipment, facilities, coaching, and oversight. He said he has received a preliminary commitment from one Boston professional sports team to help launch the foundation and is optimistic others will join the effort.
The plan calls for the foundation to raise nearly $4 million over the next 18 months and provide substantial long-term funding.... --more--"
"Boston’s schools go lacking in phys-ed; Data show 1 in 4 students have none City ordered to create plan to fix problem" by Bob Hohler, Globe Staff | July 13, 2009
Boston’s public schools have failed to provide any formal instruction in physical education to about 25 percent of the city’s students, despite a state law that requires physical education be taught to all students in all grades....
The systemic failure shows that the crisis in Boston public school athletics runs deeper than ill-prepared students participating on teams plagued by inadequate funding, facilities, and equipment.... Other schools nationwide have also drastically cut or eliminated physical education amid a push to improve test scores in literacy and math.
The state’s standards do not set a minimum number of minutes a week for physical education, but national standards recommend 125 minutes a week for elementary schools and 225 minutes a week for middle schools and high schools....
Clarzell Pearl, the girls’ basketball coach at Dorchester High School, who has gone from teaching phys-ed in the Boston schools to teaching special education: “They take away health classes and physical education classes, and then you wonder why kids are walking around with 56 percent body fat.’’
Yeah, except the measurement is BULLS***! You ought to know that, coach!
Yes, readers, I AM TIRED of the agenda-pushing lies!
Many of Boston’s older schools have no gymnasiums or playgrounds. The state Education Department sent school districts an advisory last year noting that the law “gives school officials considerable flexibility in designing the physical education program.’’ The memo cited instances of school districts satisfying the mandate through independent study or “online physical education.’’
Deep cuts in physical education in the Boston schools have coincided with the lengthening of class time for English and math to prepare students for MCAS tests.
“The overwhelming majority of professionals we represent think the MCAS has strangled our curriculum at the expense of the children we teach,’’ Boston Teachers Union president Richard Stutman said. “Phys-ed is a major casualty of this ill-advised trend.’’
Yeah, EVERYONE hates those tests!
