Why Support This Initiative
Federal and state
governments have not allocated any funding to physical education for
the past four decades and there will not be any funding in the future.
Education budgets are pared down to the basics: reading, writing and
arithmetic. As such, the nationwide average is one physical education
teacher to every 700 students. Of these physical educators, less than
one-third have any formal training on fitness and cardiovascular health.
Unless the private sector adopts the
public sector for this health issue there will continue to be an exacerbation
of preventable health problems. Your funding of this project will make
an absolute difference. It will be measurable and permanent. Each fall
when the school bell rings a new generation of children lacking fitness
will come through the door, only this time, because of your sponsorship,
year after year, the school will be equipped with a solution to reverse
this trend.