HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

7

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING THE board OF EDUCATION TO REQUIRE THAT A PUBLIC SCHOOL CURRICULUM maintain THE CURRENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENT AND OFFER A WIDER VARIETY OF STUDENT ELECTIVE CLASSES INVOLVING PHYSICAL ACTIVITY.

 

 

WHEREAS, obesity is the number one health problem in America and has caused about four hundred thousand deaths in the year 2000; and

WHEREAS, youth obesity has risen an alarming sixty per cent in the past twenty years and more than twenty per cent of Hawaiian children are overweight; and

WHEREAS, just one-third of the people in America meet the recommended thirty minutes of exercise five days a week; and

WHEREAS, most high schools offer only limited choices of physical activity classes such as physical education and weight training; and

WHEREAS, many youths do not participate in after school athletics due to after school transportation difficulties or lack of time after school to exercise; and

WHEREAS, these youths would greatly benefit from more extra-curricular physical activity classes offered within the school day; and

WHEREAS, the traditional classroom instruction does not always serve the needs of students with learning disabilities or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, courses that involve physical activity such as dance and martial arts could foster a more effective learning environment; now, there,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-third Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2005, that the Board of Education is respectfully requested to maintain current physical education requirements and expand its curriculum to support more extracurricular physical activity classes in school to further the well-being of Hawaii's youth and to prevent the development of adult obesity; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to the Chairperson of the Board of Education and the Superintendent of Education.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

DOE; PE