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Pocatello Elementary Schools Differ on Physical Education (Video)

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"Healthy kids make healthy adults," says The Academy Physical Education teacher Lester Stewart. "I can't explain it in any better way."Sounds simple enough. However, the physical education teacher says he still see's quite a bit of obese children.

"You see alot of kids who are overweight who don't need to be overweight," Stewart said. "Kids have it hard enough these days. "They don't need anything extra that's going to affect their childhood in a negative fashion.

To combat that issue, one First Lady Michelle Obama has been addressing in her "Just Move!" cam pain, Pocatello charter schools allot two hours of physical education to their academic curriculum a week, during four 30 minute sessions.

The public schools in district 25 on the other hand, handle things a little differently. With only 4 P.E. teachers for 16 schools, kids get an hour of P.E. a month.

District 25's physical education specialist Joe Mattie stated, "what we do is offer 30 mins to each class, K through 6 grade, at one school. Once we're done, with each class, we go to the next school and teach the same lesson."

Leaving District 25 to rely on a nationally standardized test to determine the fitness of their kids. "If they can't pass the test, it's a definite sign to the parents they need to change their kids lifestyles," Mattie said. Or just a warning to district 25, that they might need to rethink theirs.

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