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President Trump will host several professional athletes at the White House on Thursday, including golfer Bryson DeChambeau, for an executive order signing that will reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test.
DeChambeau, who is friendly with Trump, will chair the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, the White House confirmed.
The order will direct the council to develop school-based programs that reward achievements in physical education.
It will also reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test, which was first created in 1966 and was administered in public middle schools and high schools. The test was replaced in 2013 with the Presidential Youth Fitness Program, which emphasized living an active and healthy lifestyle. more
h/t Brad
Meh. Phys Ed in the 70s was always about that test, twice a frickin’ year, and never about developing the skills to perform the test. For some, it will be the only physical activity they get. After the myocarditis and pericarditis shots this is going to be a train wreck. Good luck to all.
There will be a large number of kids who can’t pass the test.
Even me in the early 70’s remembers the kids who flunked gym though it was small numbers.
Most of us here grew up running, riding bikes, or being outside trying to find something to do and eliminate boredom.
Now kids are seditary with their faces frozen to devices. Their bicycles ride themselves and they don’t exercise.
Should be a real eye opener.
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While I’m all for executive orders reigning in the idiocy our public schools inflict on our children, I still want Trump to keep his promise and kill the DOE, sending it back to the states.
And while he is at it, how about some recognition (and solutions) re; the war on boys in the public schools. Nationwide the institution run by women, both teachers and administration, and as such, boys are not only marginalized, they are targeted. They are told their instincts are bad, they are disruptive, too masculine, too toxic, be more like the girls because they are amazing. And with the boys getting beat down, the girls are elevated. Men are taught how to treat women, and women are taught how they should be treated. And society suffers, most notably with women ending up miserable, unfulfilled, and alone.
Anyone else remember the ads for the Presidents fitness programs in comic books back in the 60’s. My biggest gripe about gym class in HS especially in the late 60’s was the PE coaches trying to get us fit so that we could fight in the damned Vietnam war. None of us liked that, we weren’t sacrificial lambs like they wanted us to be. I did run track in my Junior year in HS in 1970 and ran the 880-yard dash and one-mile runs. I wasn’t as elite as some of our runners were, but I could still run a 5-minute mile back then
The main thing I remember from high school PE class is having to run two miles in white shorts and a T-shirt in 32° rain and sleet with a nasty wind. I hated that teacher.
So an overweight man who lives on diet coke and hamburgers is going to lecture us about health and fitness? Fuck off, Trump.
Hey Earl, go suck on a tailpipe.
Oh look, Earl wondered over from Reddit. Home of the brain dead.
I think this is a killer idea. It will boost testo rates in young men. Instill confidence. Hopefully reduce the amount of fat pink haired women running around it the future. Plus it’s been proven that physically fit kids do better scholastically.
I second Rich’s point. Destroy the Department of Education. That fat bitch Randi Wineass was on the news again this morning demanding new legislation to protect teachers. How much more can they be protected? When I read DOE< I think Department of Energy.
LOL What did I write that was a lie? Oh, and hurty words upset mr ‘send the nuke subs’, not me.
I’ll bet Earl couldn’t follow Trump around a golf course with out passing out. I’m not understanding his issue. I guess Earl thinks this 80 year old guy should be his roll model. Like I say, Reddit, home of the brain dead.
I got it when I was a kid.
Ha ha ha The fatty maggies are getting a workout from Peddy.
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Snicker, ya kill me. Pouring more gas on that fire.
Wow, I remember back in the 50’s I could climb the rope to the ceiling of the gym using only my arms and hands. Then at the floor exercise I got elbowed in my face and broke my two front permanent teeth. I was pissed off at Kennedy for wanting all of us in good physical shape. I was known as snaggle tooth because I had a giant Aluminum cap on one tooth next to the missing one they had to pull. I got over being pissed at Kennedy but never got over the dumb shit bugs bunny teeth the dentist gave me.
Trump a roll model? Sheesh, a roll of childish lard more like; he’s a blow-hard coke chugger. ‘Send in the nuke subs’… what a jerk.
fell down the stairs and broke my back in 67….had to get a new doctor note every year excusing me from gym…..the fine administrators of the school didn’t think the doctors note excused me from the test….when you have an unhealed crack in your spine, and the doctors are warning you ONE WRONG MOVE AND YOU’RE PARALYZED WASTE DOWN….somehow running twelve laps didn’t seem like the right thing to do….yeah, trouble ensued…