R; Public schools should offer martial arts P.E. classes

My opponent wishes there to be a 'shared' BOP... I will then accept this but I refuse to meet it this round and merely wish to play Devil's Advocate, poking hole's in the pro case. I'll present a more constructive case in a later round.I shall be quoting my opponent and rebutting quote by quote."Martial arts serves as a method of exercise that is highly beneficial because it [1]: Builds & stimulates muscle groups that mostly are unstimulated in the average student's life Increases coordination" 1. If the muscle are mostly non-stimulated in a student's life it is in itself clear that students don't need those muscles to be exercised. If there is not an inherent NEED for students of public schools to stimulate them is it really wise for these low budget schools to fund a sport where, unlike football, muscles that are quite unnecessary to a student, are stimulated? I think not.2. All sports increase co-ordination, this is pretty futile in being specific to martial arts."Both are important to build in America's youth as we become increasingly unhealthy and auto accidents and fatalities are growing again among the youth." I don't see how exercising muscles which a student clearly doesn't use or need are going to be necessary in becoming healthy when they could instead do a standard sport like football, baseball or hockey that exercises the legs, which are heavily used in walking from class to class every day, build cardio and of course (especially the batting in baseball and dribbling in hockey) increase co-ordination. In fact co-ordination increasing to avoid car accidents require alertness and strong legs to slam the brakes in time. Unless you are specifically referring to tae kwon do, most martial arts only use legs 50% or less with most moves consisting of use of arms and upper body strength. Thus most car accident would be avoided by sports having a high inclusion of running and these sports are the ones already funded by public schools."The obesity rate in the U.S. Has tripled in the past 20 years among teens and is set to grow even more[3], meaning that we should explore alternative methods to enhance the physical well being of students other than the other methods that we have used that appear to have had little effect. Martial arts is affective[sic] where other forms of P.E. Aren't and can be used at a variety of levels to get students involved in physical activity." You made a fundamental error here in the way you drew the conclusion from the evidence. You say that teen obesity has risen in the past 20 years however this is due to overeating more than lack of exercise and if it was due to lack of exercise, it merely would mean that we have to increase periods of time spent doing PE rather than change the sport they do, this is as silly as eating apple pie instead of strawberry pie and thinking you're eating more pie (if pie were the cure to obesity).I shall now provide proof that obesity is far more due to diet than activity level.Evidence: http://tinyurl.com..."Now a controversial study has found for the first time that children who are obese do less exercise because they are already overweight. The findings suggest that junk food and overfeeding from an early age is responsible for childhood obesity rather than children increasingly staying inside to watch TV and play video games."Essentially (as is agreed with every single other source you can find on the matter) both food and exercise affect weight gain but first one must be skinny enough to do exercise (not anorexic of course!). So fundamentally, merely doing martial arts will not change anything since the children who do a lot of sports will be doing a lot anyway and those who don't, will barely see a change in weight (they'd be happy to just stick to white or yellow belt for the whole schooling life)."Secondly, the accident rate among youth in this country can be casually related to the growing use of texting and phones while driving; this statistic has been more or less stable until 2003 when arguably mobile phones became more popular among the youth. While this is extraneous, I would argue that the increase in coordination of students that take these classes would improve their ability to drive safely and build better reaction times in traffic." The point is that ALLL SPORTS increase co-ordination. Having to bat in baseball, to both catch, dodge players and pass in American Football or to dribble, dodge and shoot in hockey all require extreme stamina, agility and co-ordination. It is no better or worse than martial arts, just different in the way it trains one to be more co-ordinated. There is no reason to suddenly offer martial arts when standard sports are already offered."Martial arts has been researched as a method to assist troubled youth, build better social relationships and develop self-discipline in it's[sic] practitioners. [5][6][7] The main way this is done is by creating a structured group environment that teaches self-control, respect and an acceptable method to release aggression. The end result is a group of people that are “at peace with themselves” and each other, which for some students that are shunned by their peers causing the “troubled teen” and is key to improving their social well-being." This applies to all sports and is not solely an attribute of martial arts specifically."Students that are taught to defend themselves rate themselves higher on tests of perceived efficacy, making them more active and assertive in their adult lives – traits that I think we can agree enable a person to be more successful." Every single martial I have ever known to exist is unlike almost all other sports because it doesn't want you to be "assertive" it wants you to be a humble student. In an American Football match it's all about aggression adrenaline and a pumping spirit of "I WILL BEAT YOU!" whenever facing an opponent. In martial arts it's more about "I will humbly display the art that I have spent so many years mastering." This isn't just shown in movies depicting the humility that creates a martial arts champion but simply from the fact that martial arts is all about one sensei dictating your lifestyle and diet and day to day activity in order to succeed. It's not a sport to encourage assertion, but rather quiet confidence, the silent warrior, the humble student. These are all examples of the martial artist. As for the rating point. ALL sports rate you on efficacy."Also, considering that these are coed classes (implied at least) there is a distinct benefit to protecting women from assault." Since this will be a compulsory PE sport, it's very likely that most of the women will either not really care about it or, at most, get to yellow belt. PE is nothing like attending a regular competitive club of the sport. A PE class in martial arts would be a piss-take I mean come on you really think after one term of that sport these women are really that much better off when suddenly overcome by fear and terror at the hands of a guy twice their strength? Let's be realistic here. This is PE, those who care about it would be doing martial arts outside of PE anyway, those who don't wouldn't care anyway.I conclude that you have merely explained the benefits of PE and tried to twist it to fit martial arts specifically. This is a fallacy of logic and thus I await your counter and perhaps new contentions in round three.