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Fantastic "Phys Ed"

2/3/2014

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I was reading one of my sources for a tutorial paper on social class and its effect on British education in the first half of the 20th century, and came across a great tidbit about Physical Education.
"The key to the teacher's work, it argued, was knowledge of the child's body. Physical education, so well catered for in the independent schools to which politicians send their own sons, was still woefully neglected in public elementary schools.
- Richard Aldrich, A Century of Education (2002), pg. 14-15
Now here's my annoyance:

In the 1900s, they KNEW physical education for children was "woefully neglected in public elementary schools" and IT STILL IS! Camps like the ones below (run by UK Elite) are great for kids, but they are only in the summer! We need to have more physical education and time for kids to expel energy in our schools, like I've mentioned they have at St. John's, Leatherhead.
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