Diversity 'Exercises' Replace Competitive Games in Gym Class

Nanny State Liberation Front ^ | August 6, 2010 | NSLF

[HandsOffMyFreedom]

Team sports will no longer be encouraged in the District of Columbia's public schools during gym class as "competition" has been deemed an obstacle to children struggling with the reality that none of them have been created equal in size, skill or ability. Instead of playing competitive games like soccer, basketball and baseball, kids will stand alone jumping rope, gyrating with hula hoops, dancing, juggling scarves and, most importantly, learning how to embrace diversity.

"The trend is to move away from competitiveness," says Donald Hawkins who teaches students as young as 3- and 4-years-old at Browne Education Campus in Northeast DC. "We are focusing on the skills, not so much as the games. The winners of the games are not important," he told The Washington Post.

Providing the encouragement for schools across the nation to eliminate team sports and competition from gym class is the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) that awards "millions of dollars" in federal grant money to schools and "community-based organizations" seeking to change the way kids play together. Hawkins' anti-competition curriculum arrives courtesy of $1.5 million in grant money that has been awarded to the D.C. public school system over the next three years.

Recipients of PEP grants like the DC public school system are adopting a series of suggested gym class curriculum for schools to incorporate in physical education lessons through the SPARK (Sports, Play, and Active Recreation for Kids) program. Children in grades K-8 are subjected to various activities that promote "active situations for social interaction and personal meaning" under SPARK's physical education guidelines.

Included in the "SPARK K-2 PE Curriculum" are instructions for gym teachers to engage kids in activities that promote and establish ... Read more.

[reaganaut1]

Many black kids are GOOD at team sports. Why deprive them of opportunities?

[KarlInOhio]

If some foreign power imposed our current public school system upon us it would be an act of war. Those who are doing it are not doing it because of general muddle-headedness. They have a plan to weaken us as a nation.

[a fool in paradise]

Providing the encouragement for schools across the nation to eliminate team sports and competition from gym class is the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) that awards "millions of dollars" in federal grant money to schools and "community-based organizations"

Community Organizers are just another term for DNC Get Out The Vote knock and drag efforts.

Our federal tax dollars fund Democrat campaign strategies.

Drain the swamp, there is NO need for federal money to go to schools PERIOD. Certainly not for this shell game.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Bots in the making. Why live?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

[TribalPrincess2U]

They won. America lost.

Hopefully not for long, but with what we have to work with,
I don’t have too much hope. I’m still waiting tho.

I guess if we had a couple news outlets on our side it
would help.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Keep ‘em down. Keep ‘em down. Easier to control.

[andy58-in-nh]

People who can’t compete will not fight.

[DustyMoment]

Team sports will no longer be encouraged in the District of Columbia's public schools during gym class as "competition" has been deemed an obstacle to children struggling with the reality that none of them have been created equal in size, skill or ability. Instead of playing competitive games like soccer, basketball and baseball, kids will stand alone jumping rope, gyrating with hula hoops, dancing, juggling scarves and, most importantly, learning how to embrace diversity.

Need. To. Find. Ways. To. Stop. Kids. From. Being. Kids!!

I. Know . . . . We'll. BORE. Them. To. DEATH!!!

I. Love. Leftists.

NOT!!

[massmike]

[TigersEye]

Eliminate all reasons and possibilities for these kids to excel or even try. Make them sodden lumps that have had any trace of human spirit beaten out of them. Perfect future bureaucrats and welfare state looters. Turn them into zombies. 0bama Zombies.

[texan75010]

If this were are Republican idea, you can bet ur arse that Jackson and Sharpton would rush to the nearest microphone and denounce this as a racist act.

Funny, the left accuses the Tea Party of overt racism, but any true racist has to be quietly doing the happy dance when they see things like this happening.

The left does all the heavy lifting, they keep a majority of blacks poor, powerless, controlled, dependent, segregated, ignorant, and compliant. You don’t need whips or chains, just government welfare programs. Teach them to lay down, give up and comply with authority. If one of them steps out of line, call him a racist uncle tom and have the community shun them.

You really could not plan a better method of controlling an entire race of people, keeping them happily enslaved. Who needs the KKK when the NAACP does all the work!

[pandoraou812]

Exactly. I am glad I home school as usual, lol.

[RnMomof7]

Yea that is just what the poorly educated minority kids need to learn.. don’t compete ....thats the ticket.. that way all that book learning is unimportant