All schools should just focus on making robust, versatile physical activity programs. Everything else would fall into place once students are involved in numerous sports and hobbies. The only required courses should be English and basic arithmetic, since most of students don't actually care about anything else and just forget everything the moment they leave their classes. Besides, in the slim time slot state governments get to condition students into functional members of society, shouldn't they fixate on increasing the likelihood of each student living relatively happy lives free from the host of cognitive and physical defects associated with sedentary lifestyles? Just look at student athletes - most of them are good looking and happy. Then you look at students that spend most of their time sitting - students that stare at screens and students that study excessively - more of them are miserable, more of them have mental issues, and more of them just look like something went seriously wrong. These issues definitely seem like they are becoming more commonplace. When you look at the circumstances under which we evolved and the conditions that afflict people who sit around all day, it becomes obvious that we are basically like beautiful machines built to be in a state of perpetual, intricate motion - we persisted for most of our evolutionary history by outrunning prey in grasslands, having to predict the moves of wild herds and subsisting mostly off roots and shrubs with the occasional feast alongside brothers and sisters that you lived by and died by. But machines invariably break down when you try to push them outside the bounds of their engineering. I don't know, maybe this doesn't make sense. What do you guys think? It seems like everyone thinks schools are stupid but nobody actually tries to think of anything moderately different.
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This is . . . not super-coherent, I'm afraid. I recommend trying to figure out what argument you're actually trying to make and doing a better job of supporting it; right now it's pretty much all over the place.
Given that this is your very first post I think you'd be better off posting in another thread, and I recommend doing that after you've refined this a bit.
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