Schools are being asked to get students moving more. (Vino Wong/AJC)
Before I began writing about education, I never thought much about all that we ask of schools, from teaching kids calculus to civics to character to cardiovascular health. As an editorial writer, I would attend meetings where one group after another would tout some critical new skill that kids ought to have or some societal problem that schools ought to fix.
But I began to realize schools can’t be ground zero for every societal change; they simply don’t have the time or resources to tackle every challenge facing America today, including childhood obesity.
Can schools help? Sure, but I doubt schools can solve a problem that begins in the home with poor nutritional habits and lack of regular physical activity.
With that backdrop, here is an AJC story on just how out of shape Georgia kids are.
Only 16 percent of a million Georgia schoolchildren were able to pass five basic tests of