The wonderful state legislators have required all school with state funding to require at least 90 minutes of exercise during school hours. All those sports you play do not count towards those 90 minutes and neither does walking to class. They want schools with no additional funding to set up a way that they can get every single student 90 minutes of exercise per week. How does that sound? Especially since of them suggests doing a school dance song in the morning. Wouldn’t that be nice to get the whole school sweaty right at the beginning of class. Don’t worry about that one I along with other Superintendent council representatives have knocked that one out quite easily.
What does this mean to Oak Ridge High School students?
It means the school has to pick one of the following options.
-Extending the school day 30 minutes longer
-Requiring Junior and Seniors to exercise 18 minutes before going off-campus
-Shortening the amount of time to get to class
-Shortening Class
-Requiring teachers to include exercise into their lesson
I have expressed my animosity towards these required law repeatedly at the Superintendent Council Meetings along with discussing alternative options to lengthening the school day because it is already long enough. The Superintendent along with other school systems are trying to petition this law.
What can you do to change this?
Tell our state representative, Jim Hackworth and tell him what you think:
Email: repjimhackworth@yahoo.com or rep.jim.hackworth@legislature.state.tn.us
Call:(865) 457-5266 Home, Local to Nashville at (865) 482-2455 or 1-800-449-8366 ext. 1-4400 in Nashville or his cell phone (865) 603-4225
Fax:(615) 741-4322
Mail:37 Legislative Plaza, Nashville, TN 37242-0133
Vote now, tell Oak Ridge High School what YOU want:
Comments
This law to me just seems extremely unreasonable. Not only does this take 90 minutes off of our homework time, it also takes away from our social lives and extracurricular activities. And for what? Some fat kid can get sweaty? He/she then goes home and eats some cookies and drinks some soda because they are exhausted. On a more wide-scale look at this, why does the government think it has the right to regulate something like this? The last time I checked the constitution didn’t say that the government was here to regulate exercise. I think that an extremely reasonable compromise to this is for sports to count toward exercise time. I am on the Swim team, Football team, I am a member of the Oak Ridge Fencing Club, and I do airsoft on the weekends. That’s plenty of exercise for any human being. There is no reason to add 90 minutes on to that.
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