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Physical education has a terrible rep.
Some of children's most devastating mental scars were cut in gym class. FitnessLink did some investigating and found that very few schools follow the Surgeon General's 1996 recommendation for daily physical education for all students, kindergarten through grade 12. Physical education, like other school subjects, falls under each state's general jurisdiction, with specific programs and policies developed and implemented by local districts. A state may require two years of PE for graduation, a district may stipulate three years, and individual teachers usually get to decide which activities to teach and for how long. Many schools have no physical education specialists, so teachers create their own idea of what PE should be.