Empowering Healthy Kids Blog

I came across Texas Legislation Senate Bill 530, which broadly aims to:

1) Set a minimum physical activity level of 30 minutes per week or 225 minutes over a 2 week period from kindergarten to grade 8.

2) Measure the physical fitness of students in grade 3 through to grade 12, focussing on:

(A) aerobic capacity;
(B) body composition; and
(C) muscular strength, endurance, and flexibility.

Parents may also request for their child’s physcial assessment.

3) Results wil be analysed by the Texas Education Agency to compute correlations between:

(A)  student academic achievement levels;
(B)  student attendance levels;
(C)  student obesity;
(D)  student disciplinary problems; and
(E)  school meal programs.

This legislation looks like a step towards making physical fitness as important as academic achievement.

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