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Iowa Students Earn PE Credit by Doing Yard Work for the Elderly and People With Disabilities
People ^ | June 13, 2019 | Char Adams

Posted on 05/29/2022 8:16:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right

A group of Iowa students is stepping up to help community members get their yards ready for the summer — and they’re earning physical education credit in the process!

High school students at the Alternative Learning Center in Dubuque spent the last two weeks of the school year getting their hands dirty, Tim Hitzler, the social studies teacher who started the program, tells PEOPLE. They’ve signed up to help the elderly and those with disabilities with garden work, cutting down bamboo, and even tending to chicken coops...

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TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: iowa; pe
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To: Leaning Right

Great idea. Get and stay in shape by doing useful work, rather than useless exercise.


21 posted on 05/29/2022 10:04:28 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Trumpet 1

> Cutting down bamboo. <

Some folks plant ornamental bamboo. Then they are dismayed when the stuff pops up all over the place. Bamboo rhizomes grow horizontally under the ground, and so the next thing you know you’ve got bamboo everywhere.

It is very difficult to control.


22 posted on 05/29/2022 10:07:51 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Leaning Right

I have no problem with that. Doing yard work when the sun is blazing away is a good form of exercise.


23 posted on 05/29/2022 10:13:29 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Leaning Right

The first good idea from schools I’ve heard for a long time 🤪


24 posted on 05/29/2022 11:14:02 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Leaning Right

My first thought was it sounds like a good program but should be longer than 20 hours and does that include the time rounding them up and on a bus?

My second thought was hoping these little angels weren’t scoping out easy targets.


25 posted on 05/29/2022 12:25:16 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: Leaning Right

Cutting down bamboo doesn’t do anything but hurt your back. Bamboo has to be dug out.


26 posted on 05/29/2022 12:30:31 PM PDT by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: TexasGator

Yeah it was a hell of compromise. Booster sponsored phony jobs or booster paid
phony endorsements.


27 posted on 05/29/2022 6:00:17 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: shotgun

Student-athlete in Divison III do not receive scholarships for playing in intercollegiate sports.


28 posted on 05/29/2022 6:08:42 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Maine Mariner

They get partial. I went to a D-III school.


29 posted on 05/29/2022 6:58:55 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: shotgun

What type of partial? Was it for playing an intercollegiate sport?


30 posted on 05/29/2022 7:17:39 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: TexasGator

What a cool idea, I guess at my school they could have filed for unemployment too,


31 posted on 05/30/2022 7:58:51 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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