The Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Health has adopted recommendations for implementing daily physical education and nutrition standards in New Mexico's public schools. The council also has endorsed a statewide action plan for healthy kids and the governor's challenge for healthy communities and work places.
The (MMMAC) will meet on May 8-9, 2012 to discuss matters relating to medical certification determinations for issuance of merchant mariner credentials, medical standards and guidelines for physical qualifications of operators of commercial vessels, medical examiner education, and medical research. The meeting will be open to the public.
When Robert Regan moved his family from Santa Barbara, Calif., to Centerville last fall to work on his master's degree in education, he was surprised to learn that his fourth-grade son would be taking physical education just once a week. In California, "our kids got two recesses per day and physical education about four times a week" without shortchanging the academic curriculum, he said. "The school system there was sending students to some of the best colleges in the country.
The Coast Guard seeks applications for membership on the Merchant Mariner Medical Advisory Committee. This Committee provides advice to the Coast Guard on matters related to medical certification determinations for issuance of merchant mariner credentials; medical standards and guidelines for the physical qualifications of operators of commercial vessels; medical examiner education; and medical research.
Most states' educational standards for physical education require that secondary students graduate with practical knowledge of outdoor pursuits like boating, camping, hiking and hiking.
When School Board Chairman Dan Edwards told me the division was offering physical education courses online, I rolled my eyes. An online gym class? Have our fitness standards fallen so far that surfing the Internet is now considered exercise? Edwards said the course could be rigorous, but it sounded to me like a free pass for undersized, unathletic, wimpy kids. Without a proper high school gym class, how would these students learn they were meant to be journalists and not basketball players?
The worst thing about the Skittles incident and its media coverage is that it is a distraction from the serious issue of the school environment and health. As a Yale University researcher who has conducted extensive research on policies regulating the school environment, I have been an admirer of New Haven, which led the state in the removal of soft drinks, years ahead of the state mandate. New Haven took the federal requirement to write a school wellness policy seriously and wrote an outstanding, comprehensive policy that addressed not just the narrow issue of candy sales, but also nutrition education, nutrition standards for all foods sold at school, physical education, physical activity and the communication and promotion of school wellness. I hope the eighth-grader will use his rein...
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